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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"impersonality"”.
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The Modernist Imagetext: Embodying Impersonality From Optics to Aesthetics
… social constraints. Whereas critics often take impersonality as the ultimate instance of modernism's desire to inoculate itself against bodily contingency, I argue that the impersonal aesthetic in fact registers the imbrication of mind and body, and self and world. Emphasizing an alternative …
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Rules of Engagement: Modernism's Impersonal Interior
… what I understand to be the ethical paradox impersonality poses, particularly in the dissolution of individuality it supports. As shown in Wyndham Lewis' command that we impersonally ""substitute ourselves everywhere for the animal world,"" the potential collectivity established by an …
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The Dramatic and the Theatrical in the poetry of T.S. Eliot (1909-1922)
… that Eliot's writing places an emphasis on 'impersonality'. This disse1tation shows how this well-known notion in Eliot's work might be re-examined, arguing that a dramatic exchange might be described as impersonal, not because it is without personal emotion, but because it is interpersonal, …
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Ideas of Wallace Stevens : Fredric Jameson's view of the poet
… that Stevens cultivated a style that favours impersonality and abstract universality over the Romantic individualism that is typical of Modernist poetry in English.
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The function of pronominal expressions in Puxian
… issues in the linguistic literature, viz. impersonality, reflexive markings and Person effects on linearization. The investigation of impersonality has been built on the latest typological framework (see e.g. Siewierska 2008) and deals with a group of constructions in Puxian that have …
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Nathaniel Hawthorne as Revealed Through His French and Italian Notebooks
… James T. Fields, "to rest in the twilight of impersonality", rather than to possess the flesh and blood which made up the man whom many critics now name America's greatest writer.
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A formulation and test of a multivariate predictive model of professional job satisfaction
… procedures, division of labor, hierarchy, and impersonality jointly explain 26 percent of the variance in job satisfaction.
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Urban Rapprochement Tactics: Stitching Divided Nicosia
… understanding while Habermas (1962) for impersonality as an indispensable starting point to mutual understanding. In Cyprus, the communities have been separated for almost thirty years until the checkpoints opened. Research evidence suggests that even after the opening of the checkpoints, …
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Visualising 'The Waste Land': Discovering a Praxis of Adaptation
… identification with Eliot’s subversion of his impersonality theory in later life, which enabled the realisation that literature is used in my work as a means of projection for visualising past trauma and operates as a form of displacement for a confessional practice. The thesis that emerges …
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The Rhetoric of Literalism: Readings in American Minimal Art 1959-1966
… way of defining what many critics felt to be the impersonality and lack of aesthetic quality which such works seemed to them to exhibit, though my particular focus on the terms 'literal' and 'literalism' derives from the art critic Michael Fried's negative characterization of Minimalism as …
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The persona of rationality
… thinking, order, authority, objectivity, and impersonality must be mediated by a more feminine, subjective, feeling form of participative structure and process that encourages a wholistic realization of one’s personality, and a genuine opening up of feeling, both of which are prerequisites for …
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Schizophrenia: a survey of the problem with the results of treatment
… - an inadequacy that may be due to their impersonality. The study of mental disorders in general is to -day a very complicated one: one may consider ex- -elusively the principles which dominate the study of the organic psychoses, or use the point of view which has thrown so much light on …
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Bureaucracy and Teachers' Sense of Power
… and regulations, procedural specifications, impersonality, and technical competence. Item-analyses were done in the pilot sample. The surviving items were subjected to a factor analysis using the research sample. Generally, the factor structure of items obtained in the pilot sample was …
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Forbidden Attraction: Russian Poets Read T. S. Eliot during the Cold War
… became part of Dragomoshchenko’s focus on poetic impersonality, merging with poststructuralist theory. The fourth chapter demonstrates how Olga Sedakova overturns Brodsky’s polemic regarding the later Eliot and addresses the Anglo-American poet’s later criticism and poetry in order to invent a …
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An Intellectual History of Roger Scruton's Thought
… erotic- sacred core is a response to the impersonality of the USSR. That is to say, the vision of the state, developed over the 1970s, is one of aesthetics reflecting ends, such that personality is made possible. From the mid-1980s, in what looks like a response to his experiences in the …