APIE MODERNIZMO SAMPRATĄ Iš POSTMODERNISTINėS PERSPEKTYVOS
ON THE CONCEPT OF MODERNISM FROM POSTMODERN PERSPECTIVE

Summary/Abstract: Following the conception of activated Modernity epistemy (M. Foucault, F. Jameson, P. Childs), the article typologizes and corrects the conception of literary modernism as well as discusses its polysemy. According to the postmodern view, strict time sections cannot be applied to the development of culture and literature; therefore, the postmodern theoreticians consider literary modernism not as a narrow immanent trend but as a part of Modernity epistemy which includes Romanticism, Realism and Modernism. On the one hand, these trends make an opposition to the art of classicism indistinguishable from mimesis rules; on the other hand, they are opposite to the postmodern ‘anti art’ which rebels against modernism and at the same time it returns to tradition in its own way. The postmodern view is dialectic, decreative and at the same time it seeks for a unanimous sensation. As a result, the literary modernism is considered as a complex conglomerate of world outlook and aesthetic systems as a ‘long’ period and as a narrower literary trend which can be divided into the early (fin-de-siècle) and late (high, avant-garde) modernisms.

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