SOURCE: "The Difficulties of Modernism and the Modernism of Difficulty," in Images and Ideas in American Culture: The Functions of Criticism, edited by Arthur Edelstein, Brandeis University Press, 1979, pp. 124-40.
In the following essay, Poirier confronts the problematic nature of Modernism as it has been variously designated by literary critics and historians.
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