Understanding Postmodernism, #26.

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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And at the other pole, poets as diverse as Pound, Apollinaire, and late Rilke use syntactic gaps to articulate the powers of will or pure concentration to compose new models of self: cubist simultaneity and transformations of perceptual into conceptual realities provide the basis for imagining that the encounter with history can take on an intensity in the present, enabling one to "schufst du ihnen Tempel im Gehör" (build [your] temple deep inside hearing).

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

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