Understanding Postmodernism, #4.

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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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Unfortunately, however, the myths of lucidity and progress also exacted an exorbitant price by fostering social and psychological economies that threatened all those humane values elaborated by the displaced aristocratic culture.

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

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