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After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture and Postmodernism (Language, Discourse, Society)
After the Great Divide Modernism Mass Culture and Postmodernism - Language, Discourse, Society Author:Andreas Huyssen Today's challenge to the great divide between mass culture and modernism goes by the name of the postmodern. Huyssen argues that postmodernism itself cannot be regarded as a radical break with the past, as its artistic and political strategies are deeply indebted to that other trend within the culture of modernity - the historical avant garde. B... more »ut neither can it be seen simply as a continuation of that ever renewed revolt of modernism/avantgardism against itself. 'Andreas Huyssen's After the Great Divide is a brilliant, exhilarating book ...A major work of theoretical and interpretive scholarship.' Edward W.Said« less