Rosenberg/Barthes/Hassan: The Postmodern Habit of Thought

by Jerome Klinkowitz

Book Overview

Jerome Klinkowitz presents an opening attempt to define postmodernism as it applies to the arts and culture. Rosenberg/Barthes/Hassan discusses the work of three critics who came to prominence in the 1960s, an era of social, ideological, and aesthetic turmoil. Sharing a disdain for modernism's authoritarianism, elitism, and sterile preoccupation with despair, the three critics called for a postmodern art that would emphasize action, reality,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820340162
• ISBN13: 9780820340166
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"