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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Aldous Huxley"”.
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Aldous Huxley : a study in a changing philosophy
… besides being art, "is also philosophy," Aldous Huxley says in Vulgarity in Literature. Throughout the years in which he has been writing, Huxley has never lost sight of this dictum. His philosophy has ever formed an integral part of all that he has produced, and especially has it been …
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The Dystopian Impulse and Media Consumption: Redefining Utopia Via the Narrative Economics of the New Media Age
… in situating the visions of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley within the context of the new media age. In <em>Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business</em> Neil Postman draws a dichotomy between the prophecies of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. He claims that …
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"The Architecture of Anti-Utopias: Critiques of Modern Public Housing from London to Orwell"
… I analyze how Jack London, Robert Hugh Benson, Aldous Huxley, and George Orwell adopt anti-utopian perspectives to show the inherent flaws of supposed utopian belief systems. Building off of Gregory Claeys and Lyman Sargent’s definition of the anti-utopian genre, I attest that London, Benson, …
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Feeling Better: The Therapeutic Drug in Modernism
… the first-person accounts of Jean Cocteau, Aldous Huxley, and Walter Benjamin, I argue that representations of drug intoxication reveal the extent to which European modernists draw upon similar qualitative structures when giving form to their experiences. More specifically, I argue that it …
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Fiction-criticism in interwar England: Judgment, gender, and the pluralist public sphere
… examines the popular essays of Rose Macaulay, Aldous Huxley, and Virginia Woolf, all intellectually respected novelists in their day, to argue that their journalism crossed contentious lines in the period’s “battle of the ’brows,” or the battle between high, middle, and lowbrows for cultural …
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Play for Mortal Stakes: Funerals as Modernist Acts of Fiction
… and later writers such as Katherine Mansfield, Aldous Huxley, Virginia Woolf, W. H. Auden, Ivy Compton-Bumett, and James Joyce. Using the methodology of ritual studies, an interdisciplinary approach combining the perspectives of religion, anthropology, and literary criticism, I examine how these …
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William H. Sheldon and the culture of the somatotype
… for Anthony Ludovici, William Sheldon, and Aldous Huxley (polemics against "promiscuous breeding", overpopulation, medical and psychological holism, "aristocracy", nobility) was another means of defending conservative values against the onslaught of modernism. The German romantic, holistic, …
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Tales of (Dis)connection: Moving Through an Interconnected Europe in the Short Story, 1880–1930
… stories by Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, Jean Rhys, Aldous Huxley and D. H. Lawrence, this dissertation argues that the short story form is ideally suited to expressing concerns about precisely the opposite occurring. Writing between 1880 and 1930, Hardy, Joyce, Rhys, Huxley and Lawrence all posited …
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Literature of utopia and dystopia. Technological influences shaping the form and content of utopian visions.
… science, while the work of William Morris, Aldous Huxley and Kurt Vonnegut rejected science in preference for a different social order. More's Utopia and Bacon's New Atlantis were written at a time when feudal, agricultural society was being transformed by new discoveries and techniques. In …
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Future tense : an analysis of science fiction as secular apocalyptic literature
… Wars on a complacent world, using the works of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. 3. Apocalypses of Destruction and Redemption. The nineteen fifties to the present; the crisis of nuclear power and thinking machines, using the works of Frank Herbert and Isaac Asimov. Also examined are the …
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Among the Modernist Ruins: British Writing and the Architecture of the State
… origins, as he, along with leftist novelist Aldous Huxley, feared that modern architecture's very materials—steel, glass, concrete—were vehicles for communist thought. Artist and writer Wyndham Lewis, who later identified his Vorticist artistic and literary movement as an effort to theorize a …
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Psychedelics and Religious Insight: A Precedent in American Psycho-Spirituality from William James to Timothy Leary
The primary purpose of this thesis is to stress that there is a relationship between the texts one reads and the psychedelic experiences one may have. Reading texts has an effect on set and setting with respect to psychedelic experiences. Further, texts read—by figures like Timothy Leary—in the …