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Showing 1 to 20 of 646 for “"modernism"”.
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Staging Modernism
<p>This thesis, which supports an exhibition of visual art, develops from Jean Baudrillard's philosophy of seduction. I have focused on the representation of the bachelor and his pad in American men's magazines from the mid-twentieth century. During this period, magazines such as Playboy, Escapade …
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Freud : moments of modernism
… experience of modernity we can loosely call "modernism". The dissertation locates a number of moments ·of modernism in and around Freud's work - with attention to Freud's relation to the reading and interpretive practices of the twentieth century: Chapter One examines some of the ways in which …
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Marxism After Modernism: Anglo-American Leftist Theorisations of Modernism in the Later Twentieth Century
… 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 key …
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Modernism, Responsibility, and the Novel
… to narrative fragmentation, I claim that reading modernism in terms of responsibility yields an uncommon yet critical understanding of its practitioners as deeply invested in ethical problems related to representation. I argue that in the context of British modernism, particularly in the decade …
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Religious Mothers in Literary Modernism
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Yi Sang and Global Modernism
… Yi into the methodological context of Global Modernism, a theoretical perspective that has recently emerged from New Modernist Studies. By examining Yi’s relationship to other Japanese modernists such as Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972), Chika Sagawa (1911-1936), Kōbō Abe (1924-1993), and Osamu …
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Irish modernism and the machine
"This dissertation argues that John Eglinton, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, W.B. Yeats, and Samuel Beckett depict machines in texts in order to interrogate the status of Ireland's modernity. Are trains, dynamos (power generators), and bicycles signs of Ireland’s progress? Instead of an affirmation, …
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"Art is religion:" Adolf Hoelzel's modernism
… and educator whose contributions to German modernism deserve to be reassessed. His intense lifelong search to understand the essence of art led him from the nineteenth-century European academic tradition to the vanguard of twentieth-century abstraction. The universality of his theories was …
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Duchamp Meets Turing: Art, Modernism, Posthuman
… to consider that the actual overcoming of modernism comes along with the advent of the posthuman, tracing its origin to Marcel Duchamp and his invention of the readymade, and not with postmodernism, the theoretical consistency of which, at least in the artistic field, this research will …
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Surprise Encounters: Readings in Transatlantic Modernism
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, some of the most forceful accounts of modernity have located the traumatic shocks of war, urbanization, and technological change at the heart of modern experience and modernist literature. SURPRISE ENCOUNTERS argues that a dominant framework of shock …
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Subverted modernism: Korngold's Die tote Stadt
Using the 1920 opera Die tote Stadt as its primary case in point, this thesis interrogates the pervasive notion that the Austrian-born composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) refused to acknowledge Modernist trends, dialogues and aesthetics in his works for the stage, and instead held fast to …
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Otherwordly modernism: magic, mediums, and coloniality
… enchantment, meaning, and repair in Anglophone modernism. Through the analysis of the literary, philosophical, and artistic projects of George and William Butler Yeats, Pamela Colman Smith, Jean Rhys, and Mina Loy, I demonstrate how these authors and artists seek “otherworlds” to revitalize …
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The Spiritual Curation of American Modernism
… words, the American institutionalization of modernism built its canon around spiritual systems of national aesthetic welfare. Crucial to these spiritual curators' respective operations would be the promotion of not just any abstraction but a radically non-objective art thought to use the …
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Feeling Better: The Therapeutic Drug in Modernism
… 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 twentieth-century …
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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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Anthologizing Modernism: New Verse Anthologies, 1913-53
<p>The history of the anthology form goes back thousands of years to what is often called the Greek Anthology--a modern term and not the title of one ancient work. Though there are fragments of earlier collections, Meleager of Gadara's Stephanos (or Garland) is the first known poetry anthology and …
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Pax Ecclesia: Globalization and Catholic Literary Modernism
… the principles that animate Catholic literary modernism while presenting sometimes competing, sometimes complementary visions of the responsibilities those principles demand in a globalizing era.</p>
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Sigrun Bulow-Hube : Scandinavian modernism in Canada
… States, and, by the late 1940's, Scandinavian Modernism was among the most popular styles in America. Although Bulow-Hube was acknowledged in the media as one of the best designers working in Canada at the time, research reveals that Bulow-Hube was usually characterized as a 'decorator' or …
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