Politics of Modernism (Against the Nationalist Party)

Author: [British] Raymond Williams
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: Modernism and its Politics is an essay collection compiled according to Williams' pre-existing plan. It gathers 11 articles he wrote in the last decade of his life (excluding the Appendix). Although the themes of these articles differ, they share a central thread—the issue of modernism and the avant-garde that Williams had been concerned with since his student days. He examines these issues within the framework of cultural studies, proposing a cultural theory that advocates "beyond modernism" while avoiding the pitfalls of "postmodernism."