[New-Poetry] modernism/postmodernism

[Robin Hamilton]

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I'd like to know the same. I've never taken academic courses
in modern poetry as I am essentially an autodidact.
Richard

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What suggestions would you all offer to one beginning a study "modernism" 
and "postmodernism"?  Also what nuggets of insight might you offer?  That 
is, what impressions or definitions do you operate with about these terms? 
And teachers, what do you teach about them?

Thanks in advance,
lsg
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Modernism is easy, it's postmodernism that is the pain.

        [It's the poor what gets the sorrow / It's the rich what gets the 
gain]

I've often thought that the problems with (post) modern [ist] 
{structuralism} can be traced to the catastrophic misreadings of de Saussure 
which appear between the early Barthes of _Elements of Semiology_ and 
_Writing Degree Zero_, and later (as e.g. S/Z).

But then, hey, I think about the _Course In General Linguistics_ the way 
Mike Huckabee thinks about the Old Testament, so what would I know?

Robin