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 91
... major innovators were , in this precise sense , immigrants . At the level of theme , this underlies , in an obvious way , the elements of strangeness and distance , indeed of alienation , which so regularly form part of the repertory ...
... major innovators were , in this precise sense , immigrants . At the level of theme , this underlies , in an obvious way , the elements of strangeness and distance , indeed of alienation , which so regularly form part of the repertory ...
Page 93
... major artistic and literary works which were shaped within metropolitan perceptions . But one level has certainly to be challenged : the metropolitan interpretation of its own processes as universals . The power of metropolitan ...
... major artistic and literary works which were shaped within metropolitan perceptions . But one level has certainly to be challenged : the metropolitan interpretation of its own processes as universals . The power of metropolitan ...
Page 186
... major financial centres was threatened by the rapid fall in the volume of trading . Yet the rest of the world remained strangely unmoved . ' Different worlds ' was the headline in the Wall Street Journal , as it compared the ' eerily ...
... major financial centres was threatened by the rapid fall in the volume of trading . Yet the rest of the world remained strangely unmoved . ' Different worlds ' was the headline in the Wall Street Journal , as it compared the ' eerily ...
Contents
Reconstructions | 1 |
Modernist Positions | 37 |
WALTER BENJAMIN from The Work of Art in the Age | 45 |
Copyright | |
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