The Five paradoxes of modernity

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The Five paradoxes of modernity

Antoine Compagnon ; translated by Franklin Philip

Columbia University Press, c1994

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Cinq paradoxes de la modernité

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Bibliography: p. [147]-151

Includes index

Translations of: Cinq paradoxes de la modernité. Paris : Seuil, 1990

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ISBN 9780231075763

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This treatise on modernism and postmodernism establishes that modernists' faith in the cult of novelty inevitably led to its destruction. Exploring the paradoxical nature of the modernist tradition in literature and the arts, the author considers its aesthetic and moral contradictions.
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: pbk ISBN 9780231075770

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From the preeminent writer of Taiwanese nativist fiction and the leading translator of Chinese literature come these poignant accounts of everyday life in rural and small-town Taiwan. Huang is frequently cited as one of the most original and gifted storytellers in the Chinese language, and these selections reveal his genius. In "The Two Sign Painters," TV reporters ambush two young workers from the country taking a break atop a twenty-four-story building. "His Son's Big Doll" introduces the tortured soul inside a walking advertisement, and in "Xiaoqi's Cap" a dissatisfied pressure-cooker salesman is fascinated by a young schoolgirl.Huang's characters -- generally the uneducated and disadvantaged who must cope with assaults on their traditionalism, hostility from their urban brethren and, of course, the debilitating effects of poverty -- come to life in all their human uniqueness, free from idealization.

Table of Contents

Translator's Note Preface Bibliographic Note The Fish The Drowning of an Old Cat His Son's Big Doll The Gong Ringworms The Taste of Apples Xiaoqi's Cap The Two Sign Painters Sayonara * Zaijian

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