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Modernism and Mimesis with Stephen Dowden

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CHAPTER

The Relationship Between Modernism and Modernity

In this chapter, the speakers explore the connection between modernism and modernity, discussing the role of subjectivity and the limitations of reason in modernist literature. They reference authors such as James Joyce and Franz Kafka to illustrate different approaches to subjectivity. The chapter also considers the intertwining of modernism and postmodernism and examines the goal of modernism in overcoming the myth of the power of the subject.

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