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Bad Modernisms

Bad Modernisms

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Literary Criticism

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ISBN10: 0822337843
ISBN13: 9780822337843
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Apr 14 2006
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.80 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Modernism is hot again. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, poets and architects, designers and critics, teachers and artists are rediscovering the virtues of the previous century's most vibrant cultural constellation. Yet this widespread embrace raises questions about modernism's relation to its own success. Modernism's badness--its emphasis on outrageous behavior, its elevation of negativity, its refusal to be condoned--seems essential to its power. But once modernism is accepted as good or valuable (as a great deal of modernist art now is), its status as a subversive aesthetic intervention seems undermined. The contributors to Bad Modernisms tease out the contradictions in modernism's commitment to badness.

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