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Fourth--and this goes along with that--a rejection of convention,
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especially sexual convention, sexual morality,
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and that's the obvious connection to this book,
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the very deep roots of modernism.
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However, at the same time there's an idea
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that the artist is a kind of technician,
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someone whose values are craft, form and style rather than message,
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personal expression or wisdom of any kind.
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Sixth, this is a term from the critic Joseph Frank: spatial form,
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the idea that in place of a linear narrative
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you have a system of cross-references
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and repeated motifs that give the structure of works.