Article: Modernist homage to the fin de siecle.(Critical essay)

ABSTRACT

Whether critics believe the myth of discontinuity or whether they offer an opposing narrative of continuity and progressive development from the fin de siecle into modernism, both models tend to be based on an assumption of the supremacy of the modernist aesthetic. To understand more fully the turn-of-the-century period we need to find new, more nuanced and complex models that allow us to think outside of this entrenched and limiting construct. One such is offered in this article in the form of homage: a recognition that within high modernism there are gestures of tribute to the fin de siecle that acknowledge an aspect of aesthetic regression within ...

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