Modernism/postmodernismPeter Brooker The concepts of 'Modernism' and 'Postmodernism' constitute the single most dominant issue of twentieth-century literature and culture and are the cause of much debate. In this influential volume, Peter Brooker presents some of the key viewpoints from a variety of major critics and sets these additionally alongside challenging arguments from Third World, Black and Feminist perspectives. His excellent Introduction and detailed headnotes for each section and essay provide an indispensable guide to interpreting the many different opinions, and prove to be valuable contributions in their own right. |
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... dreams , visions , apparitions - Doctorow can set the deterministic analysis of the Old Left represented by Julius ... Dream depends , of course , on an assumed distinction between ideological surface and truthful depth ( signifier and ...
... dreams , visions , apparitions - Doctorow can set the deterministic analysis of the Old Left represented by Julius ... Dream depends , of course , on an assumed distinction between ideological surface and truthful depth ( signifier and ...
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... dreams : a major point of reference for many subsequent modern artistic techniques . Closely related to this first ... dream or nightmare ( the formal vector of ' Doom of a City ' ) , through the distortions of opium or alcohol , to ...
... dreams : a major point of reference for many subsequent modern artistic techniques . Closely related to this first ... dream or nightmare ( the formal vector of ' Doom of a City ' ) , through the distortions of opium or alcohol , to ...
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... dreaming different dreams . . . The financial community - living by the minute and trading by the computer - operates on one set of values ' , while ' the rest of America - living by the decade , buying and holding - has a different ...
... dreaming different dreams . . . The financial community - living by the minute and trading by the computer - operates on one set of values ' , while ' the rest of America - living by the decade , buying and holding - has a different ...
Contents
Reconstructions | 1 |
Modernist Positions | 37 |
WALTER BENJAMIN from The Work of Art in the Age | 45 |
Copyright | |
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