books.google.com - The Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity: Small Incisive Shocks by Philip Nel. Was there a sudden break in the world of art, literature, and music when modernism gave way to postmodernism? Philip Nel attacks the notion of tremendous and sudden change in artistic understanding and literary practice....http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Avant_Garde_and_American_Postmoderni.html?id=tn5jd4rqC0AC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity