Five Faces of Modernity

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822307679
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (76 download)

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Book Synopsis Five Faces of Modernity by : Matei Călinescu

Download or read book Five Faces of Modernity written by Matei Călinescu and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five Faces of Modernity is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so: modernity, avant-garde, decadence, kitsch, and postmodernism. The concept of modernity--the notion that we, the living, are different and somehow superior to our predecessors and that our civilization is likely to be succeeded by one even superior to ours--is a relatively recent Western invention and one whose time may already have passed, if we believe its postmodern challengers. Calinescu documents the rise of cultural modernity and, in tracing the shifting senses of the five terms under scrutiny, illustrates the intricate value judgments, conflicting orientations, and intellectual paradoxes to which it has given rise. Five Faces of Modernity attempts to do for the foundations of the modernist critical lexicon what earlier terminological studies have done for such complex categories as classicism, baroque, romanticism, realism, or symbolism and thereby fill a gap in literary scholarship. On another, more ambitious level, Calinescu deals at length with the larger issues, dilemmas, ideological tensions, and perplexities brought about by the assertion of modernity.

Challenging Modernity

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Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571811301
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Book Synopsis Challenging Modernity by : Mark A. Pegrum

Download or read book Challenging Modernity written by Mark A. Pegrum and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, for the first time, examines in depth the link between modernism and postmodernism and demonstrates the extensive similarities, as well as the few crucial differences between the ideas and art of the Dadaists on the one hand, and those of contemporary postmodern thinkers and artists on the other.

Modernity, Modernism, Postmodernism

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Publisher : Univ Santiago de Compostela
ISBN 13 : 9788481218190
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (181 download)

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Book Synopsis Modernity, Modernism, Postmodernism by : Terry Eagleton

Download or read book Modernity, Modernism, Postmodernism written by Terry Eagleton and published by Univ Santiago de Compostela. This book was released on 2000 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity

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Publisher : Sage Publications Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity by : Bryan S. Turner

Download or read book Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity written by Bryan S. Turner and published by Sage Publications Limited. This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book encapsulates the recent debate on the concepts of modernity and postmodernity. Arguments over modernism and its aftermath are traced to their origins in art, architecture and literature. The authors then focus on the contribution of sociology to this cultural dispute through the theories of Weber, Simmel, Habermas, Lyotard and Baudrillard. Throughout, Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity demonstrates the connections between traditional problems of sociological theory and the contemporary debate around modernity.

Modernism/Postmodernism

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317898753
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Book Synopsis Modernism/Postmodernism by : Peter Brooker

Download or read book Modernism/Postmodernism written by Peter Brooker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Singular Modernity

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Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784780065
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Book Synopsis A Singular Modernity by : Fredric Jameson

Download or read book A Singular Modernity written by Fredric Jameson and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concepts of modernity and modernism are amongst the most controversial and vigorously debated in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. In this intervention, Fredric Jameson-perhaps the most influential and persuasive theorist of postmodernity-excavates and explores these notions in a fresh and illuminating manner.The extraordinary revival of discussions of modernity, as well as of new theories of artistic modernism, demands attention in its own right. It seems clear that the (provisional) disappearance of alternatives to capitalism plays its part in the universal attempt to revive 'modernity' as a social ideal. Yet the paradoxes of the concept illustrate its legitimate history and suggest some rules for avoiding its misuse as well. In this major interpretation of the problematic, Jameson concludes that both concepts are tainted, but nonetheless yield clues as to the nature of the phenomena they purported to theorize. His judicious and vigilant probing of both terms-which can probably not be banished at this late date-helps us clarify our present political and artistic situations.

Postmodernism and the Re-reading of Modernity

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719037450
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (374 download)

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Book Synopsis Postmodernism and the Re-reading of Modernity by : Francis Barker

Download or read book Postmodernism and the Re-reading of Modernity written by Francis Barker and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Postmodern Condition

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816611737
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (117 download)

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Book Synopsis The Postmodern Condition by : Jean-François Lyotard

Download or read book The Postmodern Condition written by Jean-François Lyotard and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our postmodernity.

Satiric Modernism

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Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1949979903
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (499 download)

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Book Synopsis Satiric Modernism by : Kevin Rulo

Download or read book Satiric Modernism written by Kevin Rulo and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Kevin Rulo reveals the crucial linkages between satire and modernism. He shows how satire enables modernist authors to evaluate modernity critically and to explore their ambivalence about the modern. Through provocative new readings of familiar texts and the introduction of largely unknown works, Satiric Modernism exposes a larger satiric mentality at work in well-known authors like T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, and Ralph Ellison and in less studied figures like G.S. Street, the Sitwells, J.J. Adams, and Herbert Read, as well as in the literature of migration of Sam Selvon and John Agard, in the films of Paolo Sorrentino, and in the drama of Sarah Kane. In so doing, Rulo remaps the last hundred years as an era marked distinctively by a new kind of satiric critique of and aesthetic engagement with the temporal fissures, logics, and regimes of modernity. This ambitious, expansive study reshapes our understanding of modernist literary history and will be of interest to scholars of twentieth century and contemporary literature as well as of satire.

The Concept of Modernism

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501721305
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis The Concept of Modernism by : Astradur Eysteinsson

Download or read book The Concept of Modernism written by Astradur Eysteinsson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term "modernism" is central to any discussion of twentieth-century literature and critical theory. Astradur Eysteinsson here maintains that the concept of modernism does not emerge directly from the literature it subsumes, but is in fact a product of critical practices relating to nontraditional literature. Intervening in these practices, and correlating them with modernist works and with modern literary theory, Eysteinsson undertakes a comprehensive reexamination of the idea of modernism. Eysteinsson critically explores various manifestations of modernism in a rich array of American, British, and European literature, criticism, and theory. He first examines many modernist paradigms, detecting in them a conflict between modernism's culturally subversive potential and its relatively conservative status as a formalist project. He then considers these paradigms as interpretations-and fabrications-of literary history. Seen in this light, modernism both signals a historical change on the literary scene and implies the context of that change. Laden with the implications of tradition and modernity, modernism fills its major function: that of highlighting and defining the complex relations between history and postrealist literature. Eysteinsson focuses on the ways in which the concept of modernism directs our understanding of literature and literary history and influences our judgment of experimental and postrealist works in literature and art. He discusses in detail the relation of modernism to the key concepts postmodernism, the avant-garde, and realism. Enacting a crisis of subject and reference, modernism is not so much a form of discourse, he asserts, as its interruption-a possible "other" modernity that reveals critical aspects of our social and linguistic experience in Western culture. Comparatists, literary theorists, cultural historians, and others interested in twentieth-century literature and art will profit from this provocative book.

Fragments of Rationality

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Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 9780822971566
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (715 download)

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Book Synopsis Fragments of Rationality by : Lester Faigley

Download or read book Fragments of Rationality written by Lester Faigley and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1993-01-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an insightful assessment of the study and teaching of writing against the larger theoretical, political, and technological upheavals of the past thirty years, Fragments of Rationality questions why composition studies has been less affected by postmodern theory than other humanities and social science disciplines.

Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253209672
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (96 download)

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Book Synopsis Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity by : Martin Beck Matuštík

Download or read book Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity written by Martin Beck Matuštík and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995-10-22 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a diversity of themes, this collection still reflects consensus--Kierkegaard is to be taken seriously as a philosopher at the turn of the twenty-first century.

From Modernism to Postmodernism

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 731 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (114 download)

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Modernity and Metropolis

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403907099
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Book Synopsis Modernity and Metropolis by : P. Brooker

Download or read book Modernity and Metropolis written by P. Brooker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-12-17 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of urban identity and community looks at selected twentieth century literary and film texts in the context of theorizations of modernism, postmodernism, postcoloniality and globalization. Brooker draws on Beck and Giddens to propose a 'reflexive modernism' which rewrites and re-imagines the urban scene. The principal cities considered are London and New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Bangkok. Writers considered include Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Hanif Kureishi, Iain Sinclair, Paul Auster, Sarah Schulman and William Gibson. Filmmakers include Patrick Keiller and Wong Kar-Wai.

The Story of Post-Modernism

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119960096
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (199 download)

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Book Synopsis The Story of Post-Modernism by : Charles Jencks

Download or read book The Story of Post-Modernism written by Charles Jencks and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-05-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Story of Post-Modernism, Charles Jencks, the authority on Post-Modern architecture and culture, provides the defining account of Post-Modern architecture from its earliest roots in the early 60s to the present day. By breaking the narrative into seven distinct chapters, which are both chronological and overlapping, Jencks charts the ebb and flow of the movement, the peaks and troughs of different ideas and themes. The book is highly visual. As well as providing a chronological account of the movement, each chapter also has a special feature on the major works of a given period. The first up-to-date narrative of Post-Modern Architecture - other major books on the subject were written 20 years ago. An accessible narrative that will appeal to students who are new to the subject, as well as those who can remember its heyday in the 70s and 80s.

Redefining Modernism and Postmodernism

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443823066
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Redefining Modernism and Postmodernism by : Sebnem Toplu

Download or read book Redefining Modernism and Postmodernism written by Sebnem Toplu and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-09 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary and cultural studies in the later twentieth century were very much shaped by debates about modernism and postmodernism as labels for successive periods, but also for different competing interpretations of recent cultural history. In the twenty-first century, the shock waves that were sent through the global system on political, cultural, economic, and ecological levels by terrorist attacks, regional conflicts, poverty, the financial crisis and the threat of environmental disaster raise anew the question of how and to what extent the tradition of modernity can be newly defined in a situation where the problematic aspects of these ideas have rightly been exposed, but where they nevertheless appear to be crucial for any responsible assessment of contemporary world culture and its future perspectives. Redefining Modernism and Postmodernism offers a collection of critical articles that resulted from the International Cultural Studies Symposium at Ege University, Izmir, Turkey in 2009. Scholars from around the world have contributed to this volume reflecting the current perspective on modernism and postmodernism, shedding new light on literature, literary theory, philosophy, politics, religion, film and art. Providing an account of this field, this book enables readers to navigate the subject by introducing essays on transformations of modernism and postmodernism in the twenty-first century, and the debates beyond the modernism/postmodernism dichotomy.

Modernism/Postmodernism

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317898761
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Book Synopsis Modernism/Postmodernism by : Peter Brooker

Download or read book Modernism/Postmodernism written by Peter Brooker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.