Practicing Postmodernism: Reading Modernism (Working With Theory) - Softcover

Waugh, Patricia

 
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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.

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