Understanding Postmodernism, #18 and #19.

CONCEPT

This “project” is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:


Two sentences today, to make up Friday.


Paragraph 3, Sentence 9:

Ultimately, writing characterized by such intricate internal relations might even establish principles of individual self-creation that writers like Wilde dreamed would provide new cultural ideals.


Paragraph 4, Sentence 1:

But the most acclaimed instances of high modernist art are not content with ironic gestures.


Charles Altieri, “Modernism and Postmodernism,” The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (1993), 792-796.

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