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In this week's readings from Lukacs, Williams and Jameson we have some representative analyses of modernism and postmodernism from the Marxist tradition. ... Whereas the high modernists experimented with abstract representation and formal fragmentation as a way of resisting the degradation of social life in industrial capitalism,
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Postmodern literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term Postmodern literature is used to describe certain tendencies in post-World War II literature. It is both a continuation of the experimentation championed by writers of the modernist period ...
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The fundamental characteristic of alienation is incorporated within this obvious expression of modernism by Hurston's use of the word "lonesomeness". With respect to Janie's fragmentation, the term "shadow" has an interesting connotation.
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Modernism: A Brief Introduction ... There was a fear of social breakdown and individual powerlessness which resulted, understandably, in a sense of disorientation and fragmentation (and even, on some occasions, liberation). The old order was gone, the new order had not yet arisen.
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This dichotomy is somewhat problematic, since it ignores the strong emphasis on irrationalism and fragmentation within modernism. For this reason postmodernism can equally be seen as a development of aspects of modernism while rejecting others, in particular the emphasis on authenticity.
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This item may be out of stock.; Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats. ... Check for Availability ... Subtitle: (architecture and the fragmentation of the modern )
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Oscar Wilde is noted more for his plays than for his poems. He was a proponent of "art for art's sake," a kind of precursor to the fragmentation of modernism. ... Wilde’s poem, “To My Wife,” consists of three quatrains, each with the rime scheme ABAB; but for iambic pentameter and a couplet, ... In the opening quatrain,
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