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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... genre forms in literature , film and television , Afro - American writing , for example , shows a strong attachment to autobiography , to culturally rooted fantasy , and to the historical record , lost or mythologised from cultural ...
... genre forms in literature , film and television , Afro - American writing , for example , shows a strong attachment to autobiography , to culturally rooted fantasy , and to the historical record , lost or mythologised from cultural ...
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Peter Brooker. existing traditions in a genre can resist being used for purposes of moral or political engagement can be observed in Voltaire's tragedies and the freedom lyric of the Restoration . In the organic work of art , the danger ...
Peter Brooker. existing traditions in a genre can resist being used for purposes of moral or political engagement can be observed in Voltaire's tragedies and the freedom lyric of the Restoration . In the organic work of art , the danger ...
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... genre painting as his example , he writes that here the interest in the object turns into interest in the skill of presentation : ' What should enchant us is not the subject of the painting and its lifelikeness , but the pure appearance ...
... genre painting as his example , he writes that here the interest in the object turns into interest in the skill of presentation : ' What should enchant us is not the subject of the painting and its lifelikeness , but the pure appearance ...
Contents
Reconstructions | 1 |
Modernist Positions | 37 |
WALTER BENJAMIN from The Work of Art in the Age | 45 |
Copyright | |
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