Author : Timothy J. Reiss
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501723200
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Discourse of Modernism by : Timothy J. Reiss
Download or read book The Discourse of Modernism written by Timothy J. Reiss and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timothy J. Reiss perceives a new mode of discourse emerging in early seventeenth-century Europe; he believes that this form of thought, still our own, may itself soon be giving way. In The Discourse of Modernism, Reiss sets up a theoretical model to describe the process by which one dominant class of discourse is replaced by another. He seeks to demonstrate that each new mode does not constitute a radical break from the past but in fact develops directly from its predecessor.