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An obituary for modernism
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Jerusalem Post
02-22-2008
Headline: An obituary for modernism
Byline: GLENN C. ALTSCHULER
Edition; Up Front
Section: Books
Page: 33
Friday, February 22, 2008 -- Modernism: The Lure of Heresy: From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond By Peter Gay Norton 610 pages; $35
'On or about December 1910," Virginia Woolf famously claimed, "human nature changed." Woolf did not specify what happened, but she was surely referring to the phenomenon in ...
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