Modernism - Literary Movements, Modern Philosophy - 20th Century, Modern Aesthetics, Postmodernism - Literary Movements, Literary Theory - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
Literary theory of the twentieth century in the Anglo-American tradition forms a coherent whole, dividing into discrete clusters. This theory is riddled with purely logical problems inherent in its enterprise, resulting from the fact that Modernist theory develops as an offshoot of Romanticism. Such fundamental flaws, or discontents, afflict all Modernist theory, from Russian Formalism through Structuralism and Deconstruction. The problems of Modernist theory cannot be solved; at most we can resolve to take theory in a new direction.Editorials
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Finds the fundamental flaw of modernist literary theory in the assumption that the meaning of art can be expressed in terms of qualities of the artwork, and so the artwork cannot be connected to an abstract category, either as belonging to it or not, except by raw assertion. Argues that we have inherited the philosophy and cannot simply scrap it, but can and must return to the Romantics and take a different path from there than the Modernists did. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
December 1, 1995
Publisher
New York : P. Lang, c1995.
Pages
168
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780820427409