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Five Faces of Modernity
Author | : Matei Călinescu |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Avant-Garde (Aesthetics) |
ISBN | : 0822307677 |
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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.
Seven Faces
Author | : Charles A. Perrone |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0822318148 |
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"Study of Brazilian poetry from 1950-90 examines its 'seven faces' (a pun on Drummond's poem of the same name), phases, and trends. Introductory chapter reviews movement's initial phases and sets the stage for what follows: the legacy of the Modernist movement. Chapters 2-6 cover Concrete poetry and other vanguard groups, the lyricism of popular music, and different types of 1970s youth poetry. Also examines social and esthetic tensions in contemporary Brazilian poetry"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
At the Violet Hour
Author | : Sarah Cole |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2012-11-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195389616 |
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At the Violet Hour offers a richly historicized, trenchant look at the interlocking of literature with violence in British and Irish modernist texts.
All that is Solid Melts Into Air
Author | : Marshall Berman |
Publsiher | : Verso |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0860917851 |
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The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.
Kitsch and Art
Author | : Thomas Kulka |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2015-07-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780271074184 |
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What is kitsch? What is behind its appeal? More important, what is wrong with kitsch? Though central to our modern and postmodern culture, kitsch has not been seriously and comprehensively analyzed; its aesthetic worthlessness has been generally assumed but seldom explained. Kitsch and Art seeks to give this phenomenon its due by exploring the basis of artistic evaluation and aesthetic value judgments. Tomas Kulka examines kitsch in the visual arts, literature, music, and architecture. To distinguish kitsch from art, Kulka proposes that kitsch depicts instantly identifiable, emotionally charged objects or themes, but that it does not substantially enrich our associations relating to the depicted objects or themes. He then addresses the deceptive nature of kitsch by examining the makeup of its artistic and aesthetic worthlessness. Ultimately Kulka argues that the mass appeal of kitsch cannot be regarded as aesthetic appeal, but that its analysis can illuminate the nature of art appreciation.
Modernism and the Machinery of Madness
Author | : Andrew Gaedtke |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2017-10-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781108418003 |
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This book shows that a distinct form of technological madness emerged within modernist culture, transforming much of the period's experimental fiction.
Translation and Modernization in East Asia in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Author | : Wong Lawrence Wangchi |
Publsiher | : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789882370517 |
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This book discusses how Western ideas, knowledge, concepts and practices were imported, adapted and even transformed into varied contexts in East Asia. In particular, authors in this rich volume focus on the role translation played in the processes of modernization in China, Japan, and Korea in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Politics of Time
Author | : Peter Osborne |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015034908239 |
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If Aristotle sought to understand time through change, might we not reverse the procedure and seek to understand change through time? Once we do this, argues Peter Osborne, it soon becomes clear that ideas such as avant-garde, modern, postmodern and tradition—which are usually only treated as markets for empirically discrete periods, movements or styles—are best understood as categories of historical totalization. More specifically, Osborne claims, such ideas involve distinct "temporalizations" of history, giving rise to conflicting politics of time. His book begins with a consideration of the main aspects of modernity and develops though a series of critical engagements with the major twentieth-century positions in the philosophy of history. He concludes with a fascinating history of the avant-garde intervention into the temporality of everyday life in surrealism, the situationists and the work of Henri Lefebvre.