Understanding Postmodernism, #13 and #14.

CONCEPT

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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Two sentences today, to make up Friday.

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But no romantic artist could sufficiently break from those appearances, despite the cult of genius.

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Thus figures like Flaubert and Baudelaire would make the critique of romantic natural symbolism sanctioned by Christian interpretive allegories their rationale for insisting on a much more overtly ironic and self-reflexive art.

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

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