Understanding Postmodernism, #23.

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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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Images like Rilke's "Der Panther" or Williams' "black eyed Susan" combine the fluit, attentive sensibility of impressionism with a symbolist concern top place the object in a site where one senses its participation in a play of permanent energies given reality by the poem's dense formal patternings.

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

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