The category Modernism is a heterogeneous portmanteau lacking shared attributes

Evidence

‘Modernism’ is a portmanteau word that perhaps should not be used too often. But I don’t think I would classify Brecht as a modernist … I just cannot think of a meaningful category that could include, say, surrealism, Ulysses, and something by Brecht. I can’t think what the common attributes of such a concept could be. The objects are too dissimilar. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 78

Categorization

• SEED: Franco Moretti’s ‘portmanteau’ skepticism toward Modernism is a usable quote for an essay on periodization and historical categories in literary theory.
• XREF: connects to: Defining Postmodernism as internal to Modernism abandons its periodizing claim; Modernism is a coherent artistic category despite skeptics who call it empty — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 77; Postmodern heterogeneity is spatial rather than temporal, filed by place not history — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 795

Broader Connections

• Postmodern heterogeneity is spatial rather than temporal, filed by place not history #expands (0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 795