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Article: Modernism - Dada - Postmodernism.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2002
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Modernism-- Dada-- Postmodernism. By RICHARD SHEPPARD. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. 2000. xiv+480 pp. $89.95 (pbk $29.95).
With this volume, Richard Sheppard has brought together eleven of his main essays on Modernism and Dada published over the past two decades. Most have been substantially revised and enlarged. They are augmented by a further piece on a nodal work of Viennese early Modernism ('Lord Chandos and his Discontents') and a systematic concluding exploration of the complex relationship between Modernism, Dada, and postmodernism. Chapter 7 ('Radical Cheek, or Dada Reconsidered'), referred to as 'the core of the book' (p. xi), makes a ...