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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"late modernism"”.
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Recondite Reading: William Gaddis's Carpenter's Gothic and the Difficulties of Late Modernism
… of Replenishment" differentiates between late modernist and postmodernist texts. Hutcheon's concept of complicitous critique examines the precarious political situation of postmodernist texts. McHale's theory of the ontological dominant differentiates modernism from postmodernism through …
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The works of Cy Twombly : non-linear language and non-linear consciousness
… Twombly's (1928-) position in the discourses of Modernism and Postmodernism. As Twombly has been viewed as an 'inimitable' and independent artist, it is necessary to question the extent to which his works adhere to, or transgress, the terminologically restrictive monolithic metalanguages of late …
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Carl Andre Sculptures, Politics, 1959-1976
… assessesth e singular nature of his brand of late modernism. Much to the chagrin of many, few US artists of the 1960s aligned themselves so intimately with a Marxist cause or thought so carefully about art's commodity status. This project takes these facts seriously and attempts to approach …
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Roles Recast: Eleanor Antin and the 1970s
… her practice as a pivotal point between late modernism and postmodernism in American art. The project focuses on Antin's work from 1971 to 1977, made while the artist was living in San Diego. During the period under consideration Antin integrated key facets from dominant art paradigms of …
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The Politics of Intermediality: Late Modernist Circulations of the Event
This dissertation examines late modernist, intermedial representations of events, considering art as an event and how art depicts and circulates events. Through cross-media close readings and interdisciplinary theories and methods derived from media studies, music and sound studies, intermedial …
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Festival modernism : downtown plans & pedestrian malls, 1956-1974
… white consumers back to the central city, and emulate the increasingly popular and profitable suburban shopping centers burgeoning at the fringe. By the late 1980s, pedestrian malls, once a panacea for struggling downtowns, had become the quintessential failed urban project. The rise and fall of …
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Apparatus Poetica: The Question Of Technology In Mid-Twentieth-Century American Poetry
… Poetica" considers how four poets in the late modernist tradition reconceive the potentials of poetic language in order to address the question of advanced technology. Outlining challenges posed to language by communications industries, information theory, computation, and the threat of …
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The Poetry of Tom Raworth (1961-1986)
… for its ongoing relevance to the fields of ‘late modernism’, twentieth-century leftist poetry and wider studies of the Anglo- American avant-garde after 1968. I find the work’s significance to be readable in its sheer singularity, its democratic spirit and anarchically surrealist outlook on …
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Disconsolate Subjects: Figures of Radical Alterity in the Twentieth Century Novel, From Modernism to Postcolonialism
… and Kazuo Ishiguro - whose fiction is populated by figures of disconsolation: characters who resist, evade, or - in the case of Ishiguro's protagonists - assiduously attempt to conform to the constitutive social formations and disciplinary technologies of late modernity, among them, …
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The academic vocation in Geoffrey Hill and J. H. Prynne
The following thesis is a study of Geoffrey Hill and J. H. Prynne in the context of the university. It argues that various institutional academic commitments – such as to scholarship, teaching, and administration – bear directly on both Hill’s and Prynne’s practices as poets and as critics. The …
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Everyday Life and Experimental Fiction in France, 1957–1966: A Literary-Conceptual History
… a train journey as a figure through which to relate higher moments of experience to the run of everyday repetition: a diurnalization of the Sartrean *projet* that works as a supplement to Henri Lefebvre’s theory of *moments*. The protagonists of Georges Perec’s *Les Choses* (1965) experience a …
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'Shrike Laughed:' Celebrating Humor In Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts
… affective style that signals a need felt by the late modernists. Critics of Nathanael West commonly characterize the author as pessimistic, nihilistic, and apocalyptic, noticing his tendency to describe modernity as a period of decay. Those critics who do recognize the presence of comedy in …
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'Not Infinite Enough': Experimental British Poetics, Industrial Ecology and Scarcity, 1969-Present
… the close engagement with these sites by three late modernist poets: J.H. Prynne, Peter Larkin and Carol Watts. These terrains have tended to fall outside the scope of existing humanities scholarship on cultures of extractivism, which typically centres the ‘petroscapes’ of fossil fuel extraction …