{"product_id":"five-faces-of-modernity-modernism-avant-garde-decadence-kitsch-postmodernism-9780822307679","title":"Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism","description":"\u003ci\u003eFive Faces of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e 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: \u003ci\u003emodernity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eavant-garde\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003edecadence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ekitsch\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003epostmodernism\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFive Faces of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e attempts to do for the foundations of the modernist critical lexicon what earlier terminological studies have done for such complex categories as \u003ci\u003eclassicism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ebaroque\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eromanticism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003erealism\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003esymbolism\u003c\/i\u003e and thereby fill a gap in literary scholarship. On another, more ambitious level, Calinescu deals at length with the larger issues, dilemmas, ideological tensions, and perplexities brought about by the assertion of modernity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matei Calinescu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 422\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.24h x 5.58w x 1.17d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822307679\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2nd Revised Edition\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42711337599113,"sku":"9780822307679","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_8224e11b-aebb-4157-b876-bdd14b89e3b9.jpg?v=1719567388","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/five-faces-of-modernity-modernism-avant-garde-decadence-kitsch-postmodernism-9780822307679","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}