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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"European modernism"”.
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American Critical Reaction to European Modernism, 1908 to 1917
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The Dreamworld of Gajto Gazdanov in the Context of European Modernism
The motive of the vagabond in Gazdanov's prose, originated in vagrancy of exile, assumes deeper meaning as wandering through life to its final destination. For Gazdanov, presentiment of death penetrates every aspect of human existence. The theme of death, ethical judgement of good and evil, and the …
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Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel García Márquez, Salman Rushdie : three moments in the problematics of magic realism
… and erotic rhetoric, the influence of European modernism and the role of the intellectual in Latin American society. Chapter Two examines the development of a realist aesthetic in Europe since the Enlightenment. This review of its manifestations and counter-traditions in European …
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Feeling Better: The Therapeutic Drug in Modernism
… first-person accounts of drug intoxication in European modernism, one can uncover qualitative structures that broadly inform the modernist experience of space, time, language, desire, and embodiment. Evidence for this systematization of subjective experience appears in the early …
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Constant Lambert: Dionysian Modernist
… Lambert (1905–51) against the background of European modernism. It argues that Lambert absorbed influences and stylistic trends from various strands of the modernist movement, achieving a unique synthesis that may be termed Dionysian modernism. Dionysian modernism emphasizes such topics as …
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Constant Lambert: Dionysian Modernist
… Lambert (1905–51) against the background of European modernism. It argues that Lambert absorbed influences and stylistic trends from various strands of the modernist movement, achieving a unique synthesis that may be termed Dionysian modernism. Dionysian modernism emphasizes such topics as …
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Interpreting Japan; Central European Design and Architecture 1920-1940
… past few decades. However, the field of Central European Japonisme has, thus far, been relatively under-researched. Although a few scholars have touched upon this phenomenon (Ken Tadashi Oshima, Claudia Delank, Marketa Hanova and Filip Suchomel) there is no overview covering the whole of Central …
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Wege Der Verheißung: Jewish Thought And The Portrayal Of History In Franz Werfel’s Work
… questions of minority identity formation, European modernism, the Jewish relationship to history, and novel ways to combat anti-Semitism.
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Tensions between abstraction and replication in early-twentieth-century design : Norman Bel Geddes' designs for Broadway's The Miracle
… New Stagecraft design as “a dialectic between European Modernism and American realism (informed by technology) that also adheres to Kenneth Macgowan’s principle of simplification, suggestion and synthesis,” which necessarily excludes the set from the movement altogether. Using this same …
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Irving Gill and rediscovery of concrete in California the Marie and Chauncey Clark, 1919-22
… phenomenon, or an example of Gill's proto-(European) modernism. Rather, the thesis adopts a method which could be called an "iconology of materials." A focus on the material context does not imply any obvious mechanistic relation between the properties of reinforced concrete and Gill's …
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Modern Scottish Theatre: the Creation of a Tradition
… profound connections to the related concepts of Europeanness and Modernism.<br/><br/>The work combines a considerable quantity of new material, generated through exclusive interviews conducted with major players in this Renaissance (both theatre directors and dramatists), with my own analyses and …
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Design and the Politics of Knowledge in America, 1937-1967: Walter Gropius, Gyorgy Kepes
… of importation and assimilation linking interwar European modernism and its post-World War Two American legacies, this project also implicates that larger narrative and its constructions. Avant-garde practices in the Weimar Republic orbit advanced a model of design as a practice of knowledge, …
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'A Fragment of Wholeness': The Making of the Poetic Subject in Vasyl Stus's Palimpsests
My PhD thesis investigates the exploration of the self and the innovative poetical language in the works of the Ukrainian dissident poet and Gulag prisoner Vasyl Stus (1938-1985). Focusing on Stus’s magnum opus collection Palimpsests (1971-1979), where the poet casts the inhuman conditions of his …