Modern/postmodern : society, philosophy, literature /

Modern/postmodern : society, philosophy, literature /

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Author / Creator:Zima, P. V.
Uniform title:Moderne/Postmoderne. English
Imprint:London ; New York : Continuum, ©2010.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 310 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Postmodernism.
Postmodernism (Literature)
Modernism (Literature)
Modernism (Literature)
Postmodernism.
Postmodernism (Literature)
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11262280
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ISBN:9781441112897
1441112898
1283202735
9781283202732
9780826424020
0826424023
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-290) and index.
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Summary:Modern/Postmodern: Society, Philosophy, Literature offers new definitions of modernism and postmodernism by presenting an original theoretical system of thought that explains the differences between these two key movements. Taking a contrastive approach, Peter V. Zima identifies three key concepts in the relationship between modernism and postmodernism - ambiguity, ambivalence and indifference. Zima defines modernism and postmodernism as problematics, as opposed to aesthetics, stylistics or ideologies. Unlike modernism, which is grounded in an increasing ambivalence towards social norms and va.
Other form:Print version: Zima, P.V. Moderne/Postmoderne. English. Modern/postmodern. London ; New York : Continuum, ©2010 9780826424020

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