The Anomalies of Literary (Post) Modernism

TLDR: For instance, Modernism refers to the equivocal and irreducible relation between the two worlds as discussed by the authors, i.e., the lack that ties any mediation to a dreamed-of immediacy.

Abstract: ODERNiSM is a word of great currency, almost literally a figure „of exchange. But the word itself is hardly definite for being so in vogue, so significant. So obviously figurai and in circulation. It is not, quite clearly, quite clear or transparent; nor is it a proper name for either some historical period or some identifiable or unique style. At the same time an historical and an ahistorical category, it refers (a term of equal indeterminacy) to the equivocal and irreducible relation between the two—that is, to what is often today called \"desire\" or the lack that ties any mediation to a dreamed-of immediacy, the temporal or sensuous to the transcendental or supersensuous, act to idea, and perhaps even literature to philosophy. Modernism is another name for some moment of transition, or for the unnameable and uncanny, an