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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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9780822307679 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
111.85 |
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CAL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Calinescu, Matei |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Five faces of modernity : modernism, avant-garde, decadence, kitsch, postmodernism |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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Duke University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1987 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Durham : |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xii, 395 p. : |
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ill. ; |
| Dimensions |
21 cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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21.99 |
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GBP |
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| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
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. |
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Postmodernism |
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Aesthetics |
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Decadence in literature |
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Modernism |
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Culture |
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Literature |
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Books |