[-empyre-] Re: neo

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Jill Walker wrote:
>Neither is "the novel" or for that matter "le nouveau 
>roman" of the fifties particicularly novel or new. The
>renaissance has a smack of "new" in it, too, don't you
>think, and how about new-classicism and modernism?

None of those are fields, just periods or
genres within a field. The name "new media"
has been suggested for a field and that is
why the new/neo/nouveau label does not seem
so adequate.


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