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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... intellectual, artistic and political elitism. Others struggle against postmodernism's smooth surfaces aiming to recover a lost critical distance and rational perspective upon past and future. These positions have been adopted on a very ...
... intellectual, artistic and political elitism. Others struggle against postmodernism's smooth surfaces aiming to recover a lost critical distance and rational perspective upon past and future. These positions have been adopted on a very ...
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... intellectual, ideological and aesthetic models. Though it has become easier to acknowledge this with respect to modernism - indeed this might comprise a postmodern perspective upon modernism - postmodernist debate, for all its claims to ...
... intellectual, ideological and aesthetic models. Though it has become easier to acknowledge this with respect to modernism - indeed this might comprise a postmodern perspective upon modernism - postmodernist debate, for all its claims to ...
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... intellectual analysis. It declared itself for open, randomised, and popular forms and looked to an alliance with the counter-culture of youth, drugs, Rock-and-Roll and a new erotics in a deliberate affront to the decorums and ...
... intellectual analysis. It declared itself for open, randomised, and popular forms and looked to an alliance with the counter-culture of youth, drugs, Rock-and-Roll and a new erotics in a deliberate affront to the decorums and ...
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... intellectual and cultural history. Yet a book such as this cannot itself be free from the problems of definition and appraisal it raises. Is this commentary and selection postmodern because it is produced in the present postmodern ...
... intellectual and cultural history. Yet a book such as this cannot itself be free from the problems of definition and appraisal it raises. Is this commentary and selection postmodern because it is produced in the present postmodern ...
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... intellectual 'modern' tradition to counter a later 'postmodern' phase of American social and cultural development ... Intellectuals' he calls for a renewal of 'the values of liberalism, for the politics of a democratic radicalism')21 ...
... intellectual 'modern' tradition to counter a later 'postmodern' phase of American social and cultural development ... Intellectuals' he calls for a renewal of 'the values of liberalism, for the politics of a democratic radicalism')21 ...
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