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Definitional excursions
the meanings of modern/ modernity/modernism
pp. 11-32
Abstract
What is modernity? What is or was modernism? Why is the energetic, expanding, multidisciplinary field of modernist studies so filled with contestation over the very ground of study? Definitional activities are fictionalizing processes, however much they sound like rational categorization. As such, I will begin with three stories, allegorized but rooted in my own experience in an evolving field.1
Publication details
Published in:
Caughie Pamela L. (2009) Disciplining modernism. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Pages: 11-32
Full citation:
Stanford Friedman Susan (2009) „Definitional excursions: the meanings of modern/ modernity/modernism“, In: P. L. Caughie (ed.), Disciplining modernism, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 11–32.