Understanding Postmodernism, #22.

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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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The poem defines what Hugh Kenner calls "the gestalt of what it could assimilate" because the conditions of imaginative visibility become part of the constructed object.

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

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