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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... Realism 40 Bertolt Brecht from 'The Popular and the Realistic' 42 2 Walter Benjamin, from 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' 45 3 Theodor Adorno, 'Letter to Walter Benjamin' 50 4 Peter Burger, 'Avant-Garde and ...
... Realism 40 Bertolt Brecht from 'The Popular and the Realistic' 42 2 Walter Benjamin, from 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' 45 3 Theodor Adorno, 'Letter to Walter Benjamin' 50 4 Peter Burger, 'Avant-Garde and ...
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... Realism by Georg Lukacs, translated by John and Necke Mander (1962); Methuen London, Octopus Publishing Group Ltd, and Hill & Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc for an extract from Brecht and the Theatre, US title Brecht ...
... Realism by Georg Lukacs, translated by John and Necke Mander (1962); Methuen London, Octopus Publishing Group Ltd, and Hill & Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc for an extract from Brecht and the Theatre, US title Brecht ...
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... realism, America awoke in the post-war period to find itself a world power, uncertain of its national and international role. It subsequently swayed, experimentally, through the traumas of the Cold War, listing towards consumerism ...
... realism, America awoke in the post-war period to find itself a world power, uncertain of its national and international role. It subsequently swayed, experimentally, through the traumas of the Cold War, listing towards consumerism ...
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... realism and 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 ...
... realism and 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 ...
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... realism and the non- or anti-realisms of the period of modernity. Hence Barthes's distinctions noted earlier; hence the general invocation of the avant-garde in critiques of realism; and hence too, one might think, the coinage 'hyper ...
... realism and the non- or anti-realisms of the period of modernity. Hence Barthes's distinctions noted earlier; hence the general invocation of the avant-garde in critiques of realism; and hence too, one might think, the coinage 'hyper ...
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