Understanding Postmodernism, #1.

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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:

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Part description, part normative projection, and part self-promoting distortion, concepts of modernism and postmodernism have become fundamental for isolating a distinctive experimental tradition in postromantic art and then positing imperatives for change within it.

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

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