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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... style. Some find new hope in this end to old certainties, a redeeming fall into everyday life from the heights of intellectual, artistic and political elitism. Others struggle against postmodernism's smooth surfaces aiming to recover a ...
... style. Some find new hope in this end to old certainties, a redeeming fall into everyday life from the heights of intellectual, artistic and political elitism. Others struggle against postmodernism's smooth surfaces aiming to recover a ...
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... Styles of Radical Will (1969), Fiedler's 'New Mutants' (1965) and 'Cross the Border, Close the Gap' (1969). For Sontag the period introduced a new pan-cultural sensibility, alive equally to the beauty of a machine or a mathematical ...
... Styles of Radical Will (1969), Fiedler's 'New Mutants' (1965) and 'Cross the Border, Close the Gap' (1969). For Sontag the period introduced a new pan-cultural sensibility, alive equally to the beauty of a machine or a mathematical ...
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... style is all. It might be thought that Marshall McLuhan and the anti-criticism of Fiedler and Sontag had prefigured this trend. 'Camp', for example, most obviously, was as Sontag described it, 'wholly aesthetic'; it was 'Dandyism in the ...
... style is all. It might be thought that Marshall McLuhan and the anti-criticism of Fiedler and Sontag had prefigured this trend. 'Camp', for example, most obviously, was as Sontag described it, 'wholly aesthetic'; it was 'Dandyism in the ...
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... style and society, of autonomy and transformation in art and subjectivity in different and complex ways. We can nevertheless identify two postmodern variants corresponding to the ambiguities of poststructuralism and a Baudrillardian ...
... style and society, of autonomy and transformation in art and subjectivity in different and complex ways. We can nevertheless identify two postmodern variants corresponding to the ambiguities of poststructuralism and a Baudrillardian ...
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