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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Page 62
... fact be judged to have failed . Its untruth lies in the fact that it is precisely this failure that had certain consequences . The historical avant - garde movements were unable to destroy art as an institution ; but they did destroy ...
... fact be judged to have failed . Its untruth lies in the fact that it is precisely this failure that had certain consequences . The historical avant - garde movements were unable to destroy art as an institution ; but they did destroy ...
Page 154
... fact that it is the ' real ' country , all of ' real ' America , which is Disneyland ( just as prisons are there to conceal the fact that it is the social in its entirety , in its banal omnipresence , which is carceral ) . Disneyland is ...
... fact that it is the ' real ' country , all of ' real ' America , which is Disneyland ( just as prisons are there to conceal the fact that it is the social in its entirety , in its banal omnipresence , which is carceral ) . Disneyland is ...
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... facts ' ( Barbara Foley , Telling the Truth : The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction ( Ithaca , New York and London : Cornell University Press , 1986 ) , p . 67 ) . In fact , that teller - of story or history - also constructs ...
... facts ' ( Barbara Foley , Telling the Truth : The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction ( Ithaca , New York and London : Cornell University Press , 1986 ) , p . 67 ) . In fact , that teller - of story or history - also constructs ...
Contents
Reconstructions | 1 |
Modernist Positions | 37 |
WALTER BENJAMIN from The Work of Art in the Age | 45 |
Copyright | |
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