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(2009) Disciplining modernism, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
What is modernity? What is or was modernism? Why is the energetic, expanding, multidisciplinary field of modernist studies so filled with contestation over the very ground of study? Definitional activities are fictionalizing processes, however much they sound like rational categorization. As such, I will begin with three stories, allegorized but rooted in my own experience in an evolving field.1
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Stanford Friedman, S. (2009)., Definitional excursions: the meanings of modern/ modernity/modernism, in P. L. Caughie (ed.), Disciplining modernism, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 11-32.
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