What Has Become of Modernism?
What Has Become of Modernism?
Author(s): Anemona AlbSubject(s): Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Universitatii din Oradea
Keywords: Modernism; exegesis; metamorphosis; episteme; Gabriel Josipovici;
Summary/Abstract: This review looks at a book by Gabriel Josipovici, "What Ever Happened to Modernism?", published in 2011. Gabriel Josipovici is a novelist, literary theorist, critic and scholar. He was a Professor of Literature at the University of Sussex, Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative Literature at Oxford, and is now research professor in the Graduate School of Humanities, Sussex, according to the bio-blurb in the book under scrutiny here. Josipovici sets out to decode the mechanisms whereby Modernism was prefigured and subsequently emerged in the history of humanity, in its artefact stance.
Journal: Analele Universităţii din Oradea Fascicula Limba si Literatura Română (ALLRO)
- Issue Year: 25/2018
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 167-169
- Page Count: 3
- Language: English
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