Understanding Postmodernism, #7.

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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 noblest acts of mind would be those resisting the triumphant bourgeois order by positing forms of spiritual activity that neither fell back on religious superstition nor curried the favor of the newly dominant audiences.

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

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