Understanding Postmodernism, #6.

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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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That concept of modernity proposed much more individualist and stylized versions of Enlightenment lucidity which might resist its mythology of progress, its commitment to empiricist and utilitarian values, and above all its affiliations with a sensationalized and superficial popular 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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