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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Zeitgeist"”.
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On Zeitgeist
… possibilities and repercussions of articulating zeitgeist, that is, the spirit of our current age. The parameters and ramifications of such a project are, in this writing, analyzed in reference to the notion of historicity, and the narrative gaze that it perpetuates. The mechanism of …
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Criticism of the 'Zeitgeist' in Pre-Naturalistic German Literature, 1860-1880
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A study of the interrelations between Dos Passos' personal philosophy, objectives, and techniques and the influence of the zeitgeist on them
… than any other significant writer. The Zeitgeist of the War generation is fundamental to all his books. He is both a result and a cause of America's coming of age--and the defeat of neo-Humanism. Even the development of his political ideas has in many ways paralleled the ideas of other …
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Van siters en skalmeie
… that against the backdrop of the poststructural zeitgeist, the relationship between poetry and philosophy should be understood as a deconstructive one.
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Chaucer's use of folk material in the Canterbury Tales
… remain incubated within his own period and zeitgeist. He assimilates the whole cultural background of the past as it survives in the present. Just as, in the individual, the adult is the product of his youth and infancy, so also a writer's works are conditioned by the past achievements of …
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Kickaround Nixon
… switched position-wise to better mesh with the zeitgeist of the 1980s. Moreover, the novel attempts to explore the subjects of homosexuality, potentiality spaces, history, and the Information Age.</p>
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America’s Enabler: How Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad Contributes to Racial Inertia
… like it, occupy a specific space in the cultural zeitgeist bent to a specific purpose: obfuscating contemporary liberalism’s current transgressions from its past ones and maintaining a social stratum with blackness fixed to its lowest tier.</p>
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The Evolution of Luxury: Brand Management of Luxury Brands, Old and New
… planning. Environmental determinism and the zeitgeist were evidenced to be important factors that shaped the business strategies of LVMH and its brands. Strategic planning and strategic management response were identified as ongoing strategies that helped LVMH and its brands to effectively …
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AgoraPhone
… is in relation to the culture's contemporary zeitgeist that reflects a society of people who on the one hand highly value a private lifestyle, and on the other hand produce and subscribe to a media culture which is characterized by extreme sacrifice of privacy; the push-pull relationship of …
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Louis Sebastien Mercier's Representation of Urban Space
… and literary value: not only does he capture the Zeitgeist of his time by representing the moral physiognomy of the moment but he also masterfully describes Paris, Parisians, and urban phenomena by revealing hidden realities of the city. He unveils the interconnectedness of urban life and …
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After the wall : a Berlin adventure
… heavily on setting and attempts to capture the Zeitgeist . The heroine, Rachel Hoffman, is a journalist who branches out into freelance detective work. In the grand tradition of fictional sleuths, she is a smart-talking, wise cracking type. She shares, however, the tendency of many a late 20 th …
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An examination of the relation of scientific thought to changing notions of time, space and character in 20th century drama: Chekov, Beckett, Foreman
… the influence scientific thought had on the zeitgeist of the twentieth†century and how this in turn is reflected through the drama in the treatment of the dramatic elements of time, space and character. The focus of the study rests on three case studies, each of which can be seen as a …
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Examination of the evolution of multi-percussion
… of the twentieth century reflected the Zeitgeist, and composers exploited the creative potential of this sonic and textural pallete. This led to the development of various settings of multi-percussion; orchestral, chamber, percussion ensembles, and solo multi-percussion works. This …
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Evolving a Theatre of Truth
… Theatre of Truth in the context of the immediate zeitgeist. The questions I address are the role of feminist theatre in a world dominated by global media and corporate omnipotence; the conflation of theatre and Realpolitick; the limitations of postmodern thought and critical theory, and the …
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Fritz Klemm, Leben und Werk
… Ist gerade in den frühen Arbeiten noch gut der Zeitgeist erkennbar, so sind die späten Werke dieses Einzelgängers heute kaum in die gängigen Kategorien von Stil einzuordnen. Von der Biographie ausgehend, werde ich die einzelnen Werkphasen als jeweils in sich geschlossenen Einheiten chronologisch …
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Goodbye to All That Again
… In doing so, the writer hopes to adjust the zeitgeist, a major concern of his practice as detailed in his STATEMENT OF PURPOSE, toward a more accurate representation of military members so that society can more effectively meet their needs.</p>
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Urbanhermes : fashion signaling and the social mobility of images
… images surface as representation of the daily zeitgeist; the image as fashion emerges and grows in popularity as knowledge diffuses over a very short period of time. A wireless communication infrastructure allows users to pass along images from bag to bag, and potential proximity sensing adds …
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Obscured Visions: Psychology, Religion, and Mysticism in J. SHeridan Le Fanu's In a Glass Darkly
… novels and short stories explore the cultural zeitgeist of nineteenth-century Ireland and England in great detail—with particular attention being paid to the religious fears, interest in the occult, and the developing psychological knowledge of the era. Though long understood by scholars as …
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Albert Camus en la obra Carlos Martinez Rivas y Charles Bukowski
… sense of disenchantment in thinkers altering the zeitgeist and the orientation of an entire intellectual milieu who superseded the illusion of meaning for the notion of the absurd.
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Digitizing the Aura: A Systems Update for the Contemporary Art World
… blockchain technology has entered the cultural zeitgeist and could radically innovate numerous industries, including the art market. The CAE itself is a network, a system that operates within fundamental parameters and, in that sense, it shares much in common with the philosophies underlying …
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