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100			_aCalinescu, Matei
245			_aFive faces of modernity : modernism, avant-garde, decadence, kitsch, postmodernism
260			_bDuke University Press, _c1987 _aDurham :
300			_axii, 395 p. : _bill. ; _c21 cm.
365			_b21.99 _cGBP _d00
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aFive 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.
650			_aPostmodernism
650			_aAesthetics
650			_aDecadence in literature
650			_aModernism
650			_aCulture
650			_aLiterature
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