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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"High Modernism"”.
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Henri Bergson, Duree Reelle and high modernism.
… the 1950s. Bergson was an important influence on modernism, achieving a particular resonance with the ‘high modernist’ writers who were seeking new ways of giving expression to the ‘inner-‐self’ and exploring the nature of time during a period when modernity was felt to be both moving too fast, …
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(De)Constructing worlds: high Modernism, architecture and photography
… there has been renewed interest in photographing high Modernist structures and architectures. A significant portion of these images has tended towards the autotelic or spectacle, with far fewer functioning as social commentary or critique. However, the need for an independent and critical …
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Municipal High Modernism and “Negotiation”: Toronto’s Post-War Governance and Expressway Arrangement c. 1943 - 1971
… push-back against a centrally planned highway grid during the late 1960s. The role of the automobile is a central element to the study, as it was the primary impetus for Toronto planners who sought to deliberately model post-war infrastructure after auto-centric U.S. cities. The history …
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Sociotechnical imaginary and rationality : political factuality and public authority in Taiwanese energy politics
… imagination in postwar Taiwan – developmental high modernism – manifests itself in tacit answers to the questions of what a better society should be, how technical choices should be made to achieve that goal, and what the most pragmatic and viable approach is to make the particular dreamed-of …
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Israelizing Jerusalem : the encounter between architectural and national ideologies, 1967-1977
… for the consequent architectural break with high modernism that defined the built landscape of Jerusalem between 1967 and the first political defeat of Labor Zionism in 1977. For Mayor Teddy Kollek, who aspired to legitimate Israeli rule over Jerusalem on cultural and aesthetic grounds, …
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Marxism After Modernism: Anglo-American Leftist Theorisations of Modernism in the Later Twentieth Century
… have attempted to make sense of both literary high modernism and the modernist avant-gardes. The study argues that in the period since the 1960s especially, the Marxian cultural left has helped to redefine our understanding of modernism in a number of significant ways. Chapter One considers how …
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Vsevolod Meyerhold : modernism, mass culture and the Russian avante garde stage
… in literary criticism and the emergence of high modernism on the Russian stage. Second, we will complicate this formalist description by demonstrating its paradoxical maintenance of the "low". In Meyerhold's work this is manifested in his attempt to reimbue the stage with ritualistic forms …
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Building the Good Life: Architecture and Politics
… work following the failures of 20th century High Modernism and the scant attention that the intersection between architecture and politics has received from political theorists as a problem. In order to address these deficiencies, the dissertation argues for the continued impact of …
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Gathering in the Far Field: The Aesthetics of Contemporary Midwest Regionalism in Theodore Roethke, Robert Bly, and James Wright
… a struggle with the overshadowing influence of High Modernism and New Critical theory. Their colloquial style and confessional themes grow directly out of this antagonism toward the ironic and impersonal rhetoric of their literary precursors: Eliot, Pound, Yeats, and the later Fugitive Poets. In …
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Faulkner And "The Football"
… Faulkner is often vieas a paragon of American high modernism, his development as a fiction writer during the "Gold Age of Sports" which spanned the 1920s fostered an attentiveness to popular sports writing that had a marked influence on several of his novels. More importantly, as much of …
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A Novel without a Self: Decentering the Protagonist in the Modernist Bildungsroman
… I argue that the development narratives of “high modernism” attempt to accommodate an ontology of “being-with” through what I am calling a “becoming-with.” Thus, the most significant intervention of the modernist novel within the form of the Bildungsroman is not, as others have argued, its …
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Aura, craft and labour: the critical dialogue between photography and painting
… as critical practice and challenge the ideals of high modernism. Yet this situation has engendered a compulsion to read Benjamin as a harbinger of post-modernism, a tendency responsible for severe miss-interpretations of his work. This is most evident in accounts of arguably his most famous …
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Navigating Vulnerability: Harmonizing Disaster Risk Reduction and Management with Socio-spatial Construction of Risk in Post-Tsunami Aceh
… shifting away from universal models favoring high modernism or progress and advocates for a balanced approach that genuinely focuses on “the people”. Thus, this thesis advocates for a new methodology for closer relations in addressing affect, lived experience, and historical analysis in …
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The Gateway of tomorrow: modernist town planning on Cape Town's Foreshore 1930-70
… town planning as an apartheid spatial practice – highlighting an over-emphasis on race that has tried to make a case for 'South African exceptionalism'. This thesis attempts to fill the lacuna on histories of Cape Town, providing a comprehensive, indepth narrative of the development of the …
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Writing to Shake the World: The Historical Avant-Garde, Political Postmodernism and the Post-Avant-Garde
… ideas and issues in critical discussions of Modernism, the Avant-Garde, and Postmodernism. Drawing on Andreas Huyssen's work on the relationship between Modernism, mass culture and Postmodernism, I begin by defining ""political postmodernism"" as a critical term that enables a productive …
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Chesterton, modernism, and the representation of reality
… seeks to demonstrate and propose a resolution to modernism in the form of the thought and literature of GK Chesterton. Chesterton, whilst constantly touted as either a harmless kind of literary clown or as a Christian crypto-fascist, has largely been ignored within all serious academic discourse. …
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Matters of verisimilitude: transitional and transnational realisms in Ireland, 1880-1940
… considered the transition from realism to modernism drew on the resources of transnational models of realism and adapted them to the “semiperipheral” space and subject of Ireland to develop an emergent Irish realism. In effect, this Irish realism allowed for a form of literary triangulation …