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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... BENJAMIN , from 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' 3 THEODOR , 'Letter to Walter Benjamin' ADORNO 4 PETER BÜRGER , 'Avant-Garde and Engagement' Repositioning Modernism 5 MARSHALL , 'The Twentieth Century: the Halo ...
... BENJAMIN , from 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' 3 THEODOR , 'Letter to Walter Benjamin' ADORNO 4 PETER BÜRGER , 'Avant-Garde and Engagement' Repositioning Modernism 5 MARSHALL , 'The Twentieth Century: the Halo ...
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... Benjamin from Aesthetics and Politics by Ernst Block et al (1980) and Uber Walter Benjamin, © copyright Suhrkamp Verlag 1979; University of Wisconsin Press for the article 'Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?' by Jean ...
... Benjamin from Aesthetics and Politics by Ernst Block et al (1980) and Uber Walter Benjamin, © copyright Suhrkamp Verlag 1979; University of Wisconsin Press for the article 'Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?' by Jean ...
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... Benjamin and Brecht as the presage of socialist relations of production and a popular, experimental socialist realism. The details of even such a cursory sketch warn against generalities. In this comparative perspective, the question of ...
... Benjamin and Brecht as the presage of socialist relations of production and a popular, experimental socialist realism. The details of even such a cursory sketch warn against generalities. In this comparative perspective, the question of ...
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... Benjamin, the artist and theatre groups of Weimar Germany, and the Revolutionary Soviet avant-garde ran in close counterpoint to Anglo-American traditionalist modernism. And Walter Benjamin, the interpreter of Baudelaire, of Brecht ...
... Benjamin, the artist and theatre groups of Weimar Germany, and the Revolutionary Soviet avant-garde ran in close counterpoint to Anglo-American traditionalist modernism. And Walter Benjamin, the interpreter of Baudelaire, of Brecht ...
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... Benjamin situated its shocks and breaks in a history structured by continuous struggle, a series of constellations of the ancient and contemporary. His concept of the 'Jetztzeit' ('the time of the now'), 59 when a recovered past blasts ...
... Benjamin situated its shocks and breaks in a history structured by continuous struggle, a series of constellations of the ancient and contemporary. His concept of the 'Jetztzeit' ('the time of the now'), 59 when a recovered past blasts ...
Contents
Modernist Positions | |
WALTER BENJAMIN | |
PETER BÜRGER | |
Repositioning Modernism | |
RAYMOND The Metropolis and the Emergence of Modernism | |
JEAN RADFORD | |
JÜRGEN HABERMAS Modernity an Incomplete Project | |
What is Postmodernism? | |
FREDRIC JAMESON Postmodernism and Consumer Society | |
DAVID HARVEY from The Condition of Postmodernity An Enquiry into the Origins | |
JULIA KRISTEVA Postmodernism? | |
CORNEL WEST From An Interview with Cornel West Anders Stephanson | |
Fiction and History | |
CARLOS FUENTES Words Apart | |
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