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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... critiques. Teachers of literary studies can no longer fall back on a standardised, received, methodology. Lectures and teachers are now urgently looking for guidance in a rapidly changing critical environment. They need help in ...
... critiques. Teachers of literary studies can no longer fall back on a standardised, received, methodology. Lectures and teachers are now urgently looking for guidance in a rapidly changing critical environment. They need help in ...
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... Critique 22, Winter 1981. The table on pages 11 and 12 is reprinted with permission, from Theory, Culture and Society (1985), © Sage Publications Ltd. Editor's Preface Both modernism and postmodernism are phenomena, primarily, of x.
... Critique 22, Winter 1981. The table on pages 11 and 12 is reprinted with permission, from Theory, Culture and Society (1985), © Sage Publications Ltd. Editor's Preface Both modernism and postmodernism are phenomena, primarily, of x.
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... critique of it from a position on the outside - for how can we be outside history? It follows that we cannot view modernism from outside postmodernism either. In which case this discussion, like every other, is on the inside looking in ...
... critique of it from a position on the outside - for how can we be outside history? It follows that we cannot view modernism from outside postmodernism either. In which case this discussion, like every other, is on the inside looking in ...
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... critique of the assumption of a centred system of language in Saussure's structuralism, and thus of a 'metaphysics of presence' (the idea that reality is given immediately to consciousness) and of a 'transcendental signified' (the ...
... critique of the assumption of a centred system of language in Saussure's structuralism, and thus of a 'metaphysics of presence' (the idea that reality is given immediately to consciousness) and of a 'transcendental signified' (the ...
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... critique of totality and the unified subject already present in the earlier movement. He explains this revival in post-war France as a product of the conjuncture, under de Gaulle, of rapid industrialisation and political conservatism ...
... critique of totality and the unified subject already present in the earlier movement. He explains this revival in post-war France as a product of the conjuncture, under de Gaulle, of rapid industrialisation and political conservatism ...
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