SOURCE: "Modernism and What Happened to It," in Essays in Criticism, Vol. 37, No. 2, April, 1987, pp. 97-109.
In the following essay, which was originally delivered as a lecture in 1987, Kenner considers the linguistic complexity of Modernist works.
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