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The End of the Modernist Era in Arts and Academia book cover

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The End of the Modernist Era in Arts and Academia

By Bruce Fleming Copyright 2022
156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge
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This book identifies the—now moribund—Modernist spirit of the twentieth century, with its "make it new" attitude in the arts, and its tendency towards abstraction and the scientific process, as the impetus behind the academic structures of universities and museums, together with the development of discrete scholarly disciplines such as literary theory, sociology, and art history based on... Read more

Part I: What Hath Modernism Wrought?

1. Beyond Romanticism

2. Movements

3. Why Modernism?

4. Academia

5. Museums

Part II: Abstraction

6. Explanation

7. Science Envy

8. Offended? You Win!

9. Life After Modernism

Part III: The Spectrum of Disciplines

10. Personal and Impersonal

11. Fundamental Rules

12. Verifiability

Part IV: Words in the World

13. Form Follows Function

14. The Cloud

15. Circumstances

16. What Is the Self?

Biography

Bruce Fleming is Professor of English at the US Naval Academy. He is the author of Running is Life: Transcending the Crisis of Modernity, Modernism and Its Discontents: Philosophical Problems of Twentieth-Century Literary Theory, Why Liberals and Conservatives Clash: A View from Annapolis, and What Literary Studies Could Be, and What It Is, among other works.

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