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Modernism, Inc.

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Description for Modernism, Inc. Paperback. An examination of the relationship between modernism and postmodernism within the frame of 20th-century American culture. The essays suggest that the relationship between the modern and the postmodern is not one of rupture, belatedness, dilution or extremity, but of haunting. Editor(s): Scandura, Jani. Series: Cultural Front. Num Pages: 321 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 431.

Drawing on a variety of interdisciplinary debates in cultural studies and contemporary theory, Modernism, Inc. provides a new look at the relationship between modernism and postmodernism within the critical frame of twentieth-century American culture.
Organized around the idea of "incorporation"--embodiment, repressed memory, and advanced capitalism--Modernism, Inc. covers a wide range of topics: Josephine Baker's "hot house style"; the president's penis in American political life; myth-making and the Hoover Dam; trauma, poetics, and the Armenian genocide; feminist kitsch and the recuperation of North America's "Great Lady painters"; Gertrude Stein and Jewish Social Science; the Reno Divorce Factory and the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
321
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Front
Number of Pages
321
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814781371
SKU
V9780814781371
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About Scandura/Modernism
Jani Scandura is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. Michael Thurston is Assistant Professor of English at Yale.

Reviews for Modernism, Inc.
An intriguing investigation of the cultures and counter-cultures of modernity. Dealing in subjects ranging from black bolshevism to feminist kitsch, from the Hoover Dam to the Reno divorce factory, the authors retell the story of American modernity in ways that are fascinating, illuminating and often unexpected.
Rita Felski,author of Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture This consistently striking ... Read more

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