Practicing Postmodernism/Reading Modernism (Interrogating Texts)

Type

Book

Authors

Patricia Waugh

ISBN 10

0340550503

ISBN 13

9780340550502

Tags

Criticism & Theory, Postmodernism, British & Irish, French, English Literature, Literary Theory, European

Description

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. - from Amzon

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