Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-garde, Decadence, Kitsch, PostmodernismDuke University Press, 1987 - 395 pages Five Faces of Modernity is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so: modernity, avant-garde, decadence, kitsch, and postmodernism. The concept of modernity--the notion that we, the living, are different and somehow superior to our predecessors and that our civilization is likely to be succeeded by one even superior to ours--is a relatively recent Western invention and one whose time may already have passed, if we believe its postmodern challengers. Calinescu documents the rise of cultural modernity and, in tracing the shifting senses of the five terms under scrutiny, illustrates the intricate value judgments, conflicting orientations, and intellectual paradoxes to which it has given rise. Five Faces of Modernity attempts to do for the foundations of the modernist critical lexicon what earlier terminological studies have done for such complex categories as classicism, baroque, romanticism, realism, or symbolism and thereby fill a gap in literary scholarship. On another, more ambitious level, Calinescu deals at length with the larger issues, dilemmas, ideological tensions, and perplexities brought about by the assertion of modernity. |
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Table des matières
Introduction | 3 |
THE IDEA OF MODERNITY | 10 |
Three Eras of Western History | 19 |
Comparing the Moderns to the Ancients | 26 |
From Modern to Gothic to Romantic to Modern | 35 |
The Two Modernities | 41 |
Modernity the Death of God and Utopia | 58 |
Literary and Other Modernisms | 68 |
Nietzsche on Decadence and Modernity | 178 |
The Concept of Decadence in Marxist Criticism | 195 |
Decadentismo | 211 |
Kitsch and Modernity | 225 |
Etymology Contexts of Usage and the Law of Aesthetic | 232 |
Bad Taste Ideology and Hedonism | 240 |
Some Stylistic Considerations | 249 |
Kitsch and Cultural Industrialization | 255 |
Comparing the Moderns to the Contemporaries | 86 |
From Modernity to the AvantGarde | 95 |
Some MidNineteenthCentury Writers and the AvantGarde | 108 |
AvantGarde and Aesthetic Extremism | 116 |
AvantGarde Dehumanization and the End of Ideology | 125 |
AvantGarde and Postmodernism | 132 |
Intellectualism Anarchism and Stasis | 144 |
Versions of Decadence | 151 |
From Decadence to Style of Decadence | 157 |
The Decadent Euphoria | 171 |
A New Face of Modernity | 265 |
The Silence of the AvantGarde | 275 |
Critiques of Postmodernism | 288 |
The Shaping of a Corpus | 296 |
Postmodernist Devices and Their Significance | 302 |
Conclusion | 310 |
Selected Critical Bibliography | 365 |
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Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-garde, Decadence, Kitsch ... Matei Călinescu Affichage d'extraits - 1987 |
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