Fredric Jameson on how modernism works:
"The act of restructuration is seized and arrested as in some filmic freeze-frame... The interiorization of the narrative... encapsulates and eternalizes the process as a whole.... The older technique or content must somehow subsist within the work as what is cancelled or overwritten, modified, inverted or negated, in order for us to feel the force, in the present, of what is alleged to have once been an innovation."
(from A Singular Modernity: An Essay on the Ontology of the Present)
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