This might not have been the sort of reform that the modernists, wanted, but ' church reform ' it was.
A modernist revision, perhaps, suggesting that opera can no longer call other worlds into existence.
The model here is an evolutionary, modernist one - this is what 'frames' all the material.
This is a modernist inter pretation that does not conform with the earlier tafas-r on these verses.
It is the moment when the objective observations and criticality put forward by modernist art theory alienate and limit the individual subject experiencing the work.
I also discuss the implications and contradictions of these modernist discourses on gender.
Both, however, show how, contrary to the modernists, this was a literature of social engagement, exploring the problematics of social feeling.
Modernist self-reflexivity was as much a part of mass culture as it was of the so-called fine arts from the turn of the century onwards.