Understanding Postmodernism, #9.

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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If we begin our account with this project of resisting the Enlightenment in the name of Enlightenment ideals, we can see how romanticism could at once make the crucial break with traditional art and become the blocking force against which modernism in the arts would eventually define itself.

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

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