Modernism - Literary Movements, 20th Century American Literature - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, English Fiction & Prose Literature - 20th Century - Literary Criticism
Practicing Postmodernism/Reading Modernism
Patricia Waugh
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Overview
Instead of accepting postmodernism on its own terms as a radical break with previous Western modes of knowledge and representation, it is more fruitful, Patricia Waugh argues, to view it as a late phase in a tradition of aestheticist thought inaugurated by philosophers such as Kant and embodied in Romantic and modernist art.
Synopsis
Instead of accepting postmodernism on its own terms as a radical break with previous Western modes of knowledge and representation, it is more fruitful, Patricia Waugh argues, to view it as a late phase in a tradition of aestheticist thought inaugurated by philosophers such as Kant and embodied in Romantic and modernist art.
Book Details
Published
September 1, 1992
Publisher
A Hodder Arnold Publication
Pages
224
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780340550502