Five Facts On Modernism

There and Then

1. Modernism adopted adversarial stance toeards the postmodern world by making powerful critical statements about postmodern society;
2. Modernism achieved genuine quality--as in avant-garde literature--by aiming for the highest order (of purity and autonomy) in writing and self=expression;
3. Modernist literature opposed capitalism;
4. The so-called "death of the author" in literature was regarded by modernism as excessively anti-historical and asocial;
5. The proper understanding of a text is impossible without knowing something about the "who, where, and when" of it.