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Constant Lambert: Dionysian Modernist
… and stylistic trends from various strands of the modernist movement, achieving a unique synthesis that may be termed Dionysian modernism. Dionysian modernism emphasizes such topics as excess, transgression, liminality, disruption, and fragmentation, and in so doing engages dialectically with what …
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Constant Lambert: Dionysian Modernist
… and stylistic trends from various strands of the modernist movement, achieving a unique synthesis that may be termed Dionysian modernism. Dionysian modernism emphasizes such topics as excess, transgression, liminality, disruption, and fragmentation, and in so doing engages dialectically with what …
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The Modernist Quoting Poem
… the traditional possibilities of allusion, Modernist poets directly quoted other texts in their poetry and founded the "quoting poem," a technical innovation that helped characterize the Modernist revolution. Through its appropriating another texture, quoting introduces doubleness into the …
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Hermann Hesse as Ambivalent Modernist
… examines Der Steppenwolf as an ambivalently Modernist autobiography, using Eugene Stelzig's notion of Seelenbiographie. The last chapter examines Hesse's two final novels, Die Morgenlandfahrt and Das Glasperlenspie as exemplars of Hesse's ambivalence towards modernist literary techniques …
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Kindness in Modernist American Poetry
… poses the question, ‘can we find Kindness in modernist American poetry?’ It is a work comprised primarily of detailed and extended close readings that will track Kindness through selections from the works of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen and …
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H.P. Lovecraft and the Modernist Grotesque
… and to highlight the relationships between modernist and grotesque literature. Various authors are mentioned with reference to both modernist and grotesque literary tendencies, and Lovecraft's "modernist grotesque" characteristics are analyzed in their connection to the three concepts that …
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Site Specifics: Modernist Mediums in Modern Places
This dissertation argues that the modernist doctrine of medium specificity, the idea that the autonomy of the arts arises from artworks' investigation of the properties and limits of their materials, grounds artistic production in the place where it was produced. The identity of artistic mediums …
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Conceptions of Hearing in German Modernist Writing
… I examine the effect of these changes upon the modernist sensorium. The contribution of this thesis is distinct from, but builds upon, scholarship that has sought to investigate the new media cultures of the early twentieth century; how sound is represented by and incorporated into literary …
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Modernist cultural critique: The visual arts and anthropology
This thesis juxtaposes the comparable development of the written discourse surrounding three twentieth century modern art movements, Surrealism, American Abstract Expressionism and the performance art of Joseph Beuys, with that of cultural anthropology with regard to the role of each as cultural …
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Moments of Seeing: Woolf, Lewis, and Modernist Exteriority
… ends of some glaring contradictions in the modernist period, explores a similar set of verbal and visual aesthetic problems that foregrounds the role of the exterior in the well-documented modernist "discovery" of the interior and the search for a unifying psychological reality behind human …
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Storytelling in Modernist Fiction: A “Method of Presence”
<p>This dissertation explores the relationship between narrative modes in cinema and literature and adopts the lineage laid out by Lukács that connects the oral tradition and epic poetry to the novel. I attach art cinema to this lineage and seek to justify its position as an equally significant …
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Microscopy and Modernist Fiction from Hardy to Beckett
… the non-human, in ways that reverberate through modernist fiction. Exploring a period of significant developments in microscopical tools and techniques, from the light microscope to the electron microscope, this thesis traces a paradigm shift that reconfigured the limits of the observable. …
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Travels with Einstein : the uneasy relativity of modernist travelogues
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Department of English, 2010
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Experience on trial: criminal law and the modernist novel
… Benjamin put it, ‘fallen in value’. As such, the modernist novel and trial come to have foundations in a non-experience which nullifies identity, subverts repetition and supplants presence with absence. The philosophical basis of experience, its fundamental basis within the novel and trial, and …
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Happily Ever After? Ambiguous Closure in Modernist Children's Literature
… study explores the fruitful interchanges between modernist literary technique, the culture of modernity, and children's literature. While some recent scholarship has examined works that modernist authors like Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, and Cummings produced for child readers, modernist children's …
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Modernism's Impossible Witness: Peace Testimonies from the Modernist Wars
… Impossible Witness: Peace Testimonies from the Modernist Wars" begins the process of recuperating the lost history of Spanish Civil War pacifism. It studies the ways in which writers and artists employ the aesthetic techniques of modernism, so often ensconced in violence and militarism, to …
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The Modernist Defense of Poetry in Prose and Verse
… commitment to poetic ornament, this cohort of modernist poets produce a genre of poem fraught with contradiction: images of the bad poet and the ignorant masses from the defense become central to modernist poetry. Seminal texts like "In a Station of the Metro," "Poetry," The Waste Land, and …
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