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 21
... Reason and enlightened progress . This shift from questions of epistemology ( ways of knowing ) to questions of ontology ( ways of being and acting in the world ) becomes then an expression of what some see as fundamental in the very ...
... Reason and enlightened progress . This shift from questions of epistemology ( ways of knowing ) to questions of ontology ( ways of being and acting in the world ) becomes then an expression of what some see as fundamental in the very ...
Page 67
... reason , romantic art is both an art of subjective inwardness and one that portrays the world of phenomena in their contingency : External appearance cannot any longer express the inner life , and if it is still called to do so , it ...
... reason , romantic art is both an art of subjective inwardness and one that portrays the world of phenomena in their contingency : External appearance cannot any longer express the inner life , and if it is still called to do so , it ...
Page 237
... reason , fundamentally , than the desire to make things happen ? I present to you History , the fabrication , the ... reasons itself inevitably an historical process , since it must always work backwards from what came after to what came ...
... reason , fundamentally , than the desire to make things happen ? I present to you History , the fabrication , the ... reasons itself inevitably an historical process , since it must always work backwards from what came after to what came ...
Contents
Reconstructions | 1 |
Modernist Positions | 37 |
WALTER BENJAMIN from The Work of Art in the Age | 45 |
Copyright | |
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