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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... mass uniformity, or a new diversity and way forward? Only in the recesses of one of those museums (talking of Michelangelo) can anyone have failed to hear some of these questions and the answers to them. By the end of the eighties a ...
... mass uniformity, or a new diversity and way forward? Only in the recesses of one of those museums (talking of Michelangelo) can anyone have failed to hear some of these questions and the answers to them. By the end of the eighties a ...
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... mass culture', there was a more vexed and more campaigning sense of cultural change, and hence a flurry of critical activity to meet the new paradigm. The terms 'postmodern' and 'postmodernism' surfaced briefly in the forties and ...
... mass culture', there was a more vexed and more campaigning sense of cultural change, and hence a flurry of critical activity to meet the new paradigm. The terms 'postmodern' and 'postmodernism' surfaced briefly in the forties and ...
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... mass societies. Neither was desirable and yet the modernist alternative, however ingrained, went unheeded. America was adrift and at risk.17 This perplexed and anxious liberal nostalgia had appeared earlier, notably in Harry Levin's ...
... mass societies. Neither was desirable and yet the modernist alternative, however ingrained, went unheeded. America was adrift and at risk.17 This perplexed and anxious liberal nostalgia had appeared earlier, notably in Harry Levin's ...
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... mass, the mire, the street' (p. 15). Modernism exits from history into the self-sufficiency of art, into hermetic silence and nihilism, to be deprived in the present age of even this retreat by the ever-assimilating appetites of an ever ...
... mass, the mire, the street' (p. 15). Modernism exits from history into the self-sufficiency of art, into hermetic silence and nihilism, to be deprived in the present age of even this retreat by the ever-assimilating appetites of an ever ...
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... mass culture - as in Roland Barthes's distinctions between the 'lisible' (readerly, realist text) and the 'scriptible' (writerly, modernist text), and later between (lowly)'plaisir and (high-class) 'puissance'. Alex Callinicos gives ...
... mass culture - as in Roland Barthes's distinctions between the 'lisible' (readerly, realist text) and the 'scriptible' (writerly, modernist text), and later between (lowly)'plaisir and (high-class) 'puissance'. Alex Callinicos gives ...
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