Capitalism, Modernism, and Postmodernism
Terry Eagleton
Abridged and simplified summary for students of Indian Universities.
There are two summaries in this blog.
Introduction
Terry Eagleton expresses his disillusionment with the postmodernist
agenda in Against the Grain. The essay, Capitalism,
Modernism, and Postmodernism, comes from Against the Grain.
Eagleton says that
postmodernism is not a critique of contemporary society, as claimed by Frederic
Jameson. Eagleton has no faith in postmodernism. He feels that postmodernism
parodies the revolutionary art of the twentieth-century avant-garde. It also
dissolves art into modes of commodity production.
