{"product_id":"2026200015811-secondhand-decline-of-the-new","title":"Decline Of The New","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when the revolutionary becomes routine, when the avant-garde loses its power to shock, subvert, and inspire? Decline of the New is Irving Howe's incisive collection of critical essays that confronts this very question, charting the exhaustion of modernism as a cultural and literary force. With characteristic intellectual rigour, Howe examines the trajectory of twentieth-century literature and thought, arguing that the radical energies that once drove the modernist movement have been absorbed, commodified, and ultimately neutralised by the very culture they sought to challenge.\n\nHowe writes with the authority of a seasoned cultural critic who stands at the crossroads of politics and aesthetics, and his prose carries both the precision of a scholar and the urgency of a public intellectual. Drawing on a wide range of figures — from literary giants to political thinkers — he chronicles the transformation of modernism from a vital, disruptive force into an established, even complacent tradition. Decline of the New is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand not just where modern literature has been, but what it may have irreversibly lost along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203250299099,"sku":"2026200015811-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/e982d360-f448-4386-a48b-473a90d0ef14.png?v=1788146413","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015811-secondhand-decline-of-the-new","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}