Understanding Postmodernism, #25.

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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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Thus Eliot's The Waste Land makes the failure to integrate the multiple layers within Western culture the poem's access to strange psychic states in which neurotic obsession borders on giving the mind access to the emotional conditions at the core of all self-transcending rituals.

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

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