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Postmodernism’s Abundance

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged postmodernism on June 3, 2010 | 28 Comments »

No one, I think it’s safe to say (it has always been safe to say), likes the term postmodern. As Tadd Adcox notes, “It’s a terrible word. It sounds silly, for one thing.” I myself often like silly things, but I agree that postmodern is too silly, and (more problematically) too uninformative; the term simply [...]

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The Dominant, ctd.

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Abstract Expressionism, Alexander Rodchenko, Andy Warhol, Borges, Brian McHale, Charles Demuth, Constructivism, Cubism, Edouard Manet, Edward Hopper, Frankenstein, Franz Kline, German Expressionism, Grant Wood, Harry Potter, Helen Frankenthaler, Heraclitus, Impressionism, J-horror, J.K. Rowling, John Barth, Mark Rothko, Mary Shelley, Modernism, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Pierre Menard, Pop Art, postmodernism, Richard Hamilton, Romanticism, Roy Lichtenstein on March 6, 2010 | 13 Comments »

Update: If a blog post can ever be said to be in honor of anyone, then consider this one in honor of Ruth Kligman. May she rest in peace. In the comments section of my last post, Shya asked: can someone write a truly romantic novel today? Or would it necessarily be a postmodern (or [...]

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The Dominant and the Longue Durée

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Annales School, Ben Marcus, Bob Perelman, Brian McHale, Brom, Dick Tracy, fantasy, Fernand Braudel, Frank Frazetta, Jen Bervin, Ken Edwards, Language poetry, longue durée, Modernism, opera, parataxis, postmodernism, Roman Jakobson, Romanticism, Ron Silliman, Shakespeare, Shrek, sonnet, Stephen Moore, the dominant, The Lord of the Rings, The New Sentence, Ulysses, Wordsworth, Yury Tynyanov, Yvor Winters on March 6, 2010 | 23 Comments »

It’s a very familiar story: Romanticism began in 1798 and ended in 1900, when it was replaced by Modernism. …Although maybe it wasn’t replaced until 1901; it must have taken a while back then, in those days before cellular phones and email, to “get the memo,” as we say today. How long did it really [...]

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Brevity, Part 6: Roundhay Garden Scene, ctd.(well, it’s short)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cecelia Condit, Chinese Series, Chuck Jones, Duck Amuck, Guy Maddin, Heart of the World, Joseph Cornell, Jules Massenet, Laurie Anderson, O Superman, Possibly in Michigan, postmodernism, Powers of Ten, Ray and Charles Eames, Rose Hobart, Roundhay Garden Scene, Salvador Dalí, Stan Brakhage on January 22, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Roundhay Garden Scene is hardly the only short film that transcends its brief running time. Here are seven other shorts whose impacts are much larger, and last much longer, than their respective running times might indicate.

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Posts Tagged ‘postmodernism’

Postmodernism’s Abundance

The Dominant, ctd.

The Dominant and the Longue Durée

Brevity, Part 6: Roundhay Garden Scene, ctd.(well, it’s short)

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