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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"modernist aesthetics"”.
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"Lady Windermere's Fan": Modernist aesthetics meets the aesthetics of fashion.
"Lady Windermere's Fan": Modernist aesthetics meets the aesthetics of fashion.
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Will to war, will to art : cultural internationalism and the modernist aesthetics of monuments, 1932-1964
… been a study of its contribution to 20th-Century aesthetics.
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Estetikos sampratos transformacija: B. Croce ir H. G. Gadameris /
… problem of the transformation of the concept of aesthetics in Western continental philosophy of the 20th century. In contemporary thought the need to review the modernist concept of aesthetics becomes more and more evident as on the basis of this concept it is impossible to explain how revelation …
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Theatres of Reality, Fiction, and Temporality: Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller’s <em>Ibsen-Saga</em> (2006 - 2015)
<p>This dissertation examines the influence of modernist aesthetics and ideologies on contemporary, European and U.S. experimental theatre. I argue that modernist and contemporary experimental theatres offer competing notions of reality, fiction, and temporality, which I interrogate through Vegard …
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Subject Matters: The Discourses and Aesthetics of the British Novel, 1900-1939
… conditions of modernity, and how select British modernists take up such discourses in their novels. I argue that the subject matter of their work projects distinct paradigms of human consciousness which become the property of modernist aesthetics. Consequently, this thesis links the discourse of …
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"an identification and a plan for action to supplant a plan for action": EPIC Conventions Transformed in Williams, Zukofsky, and Olson
… are transformed in three twentieth-century modernist American poems. William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, and Charles Olson are all, in their own ways, disciples of the Ezra Pound model of the epic, which is embodied in his most important work, The Cantos. Each of these authors, though, …
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Rebuilding a Culture: Studies in Italian Music after Fascism, 1943-1953
… reaction, the appropriation of serialist aesthetics, the nature of Italian modernism in the ‘aftermath’, the Italian realist/formalist debates, the contradictory politics of musical ‘commitment’, and the growth of a ‘new-music’ culture. In demonstrating how the conflict of the Second World …
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The British Short Story of the First World War: Form, Function, and Canonisation
… canon of short fiction, which is dominated by a modernist aesthetics of the short story, and a socio-cultural canon of Great War writing, which is defined by a demand for authenticity of experience in writing about war. A wide selection of First World War short stories, gleaned from magazine back …
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Re(f)use: The Aesthetics of Waste In American Fiction
<p>In 'Refuse: The Aesthetics of Waste in American Fiction,' I analyze works of contemporary literature by Pynchon, DeLillo, and Wallace, among others--authors whose attention to garbage (and the sea change in twentieth-century literary aesthetics that this attention suggests) offers a vital new …
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Modern Scottish Theatre: the Creation of a Tradition
… on from the establishing of a European Modernist aesthetic at the Citizens in the 1970s, the thesis contends (in Chapter 2) that this aesthetic was disseminated more widely in Scottish theatre in the 1980s, and that the driving force in that dissemination was Communicado theatre company. …
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To Stage a Reading: The Actor in British Modernism
… stage became essential to the formation of modernist aesthetics. I show that the actor's significance lay not only in her cultural station but also in her subversive mediation of artistic convention and self-conscious reenactment of the past; by returning to the performers of the 1890s, …
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The Art of Aleks Danko: a fluxus pedagogy and realisation
… international neo-avant-garde on entrenched modernist aesthetics. Danko's intermedia practices and pedagogy of the 1970s show an engagement with international neo-avant-garde theory and practices that reveals the limits of the dominant model of provincialism in Australian art. Analysis of his …
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The Art of Aleks Danko: a fluxus pedagogy and realisation
… international neo-avant-garde on entrenched modernist aesthetics. Danko's intermedia practices and pedagogy of the 1970s show an engagement with international neo-avant-garde theory and practices that reveals the limits of the dominant model of provincialism in Australian art. Analysis of his …
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Contexts for <i>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</i>
… theory, literary history, biography, theories of aesthetics and aesthetic evaluation. It is this vast corpus of scholarship and tradition that frames the questions a reader addresses or formulates <em>à propos</em> of a text. Blindness to these shaping elements is thus tantamount to a blindness to …
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The phantom of joy: Emotion, affect, and the problem of persistence in modernist literature
… Affect, and the Problem of Persistence in Modernist Literature,” investigates the potential of positive affects for physical and aesthetic persistence. I expose textual traces of joy within literary modernism and offer a perspective on affective modernism that challenges the accepted …
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Towards a modernist aesthetic : dialectical modes of representation in the early modern novel
… the essentialist premises of romantic-symbolist aesthetics. It also takes issue with the critical argument that modernism is the product of a conflict between the logocentric modes of symbolism and literary realism. Its central contention is that in its early stages modernism is defined by a …
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The historical consciousness of Ulysses: James Joyce's gendered, national aesthetics
… paradigm this study ainis to explore the radical modernist space of James Joyce's U4vsses. By contextualizing Ulysses through a gendered version of Baklitin's theorization of modernism, I have endeavoured to deliver readings which take full account of English and British colonial discourses while …
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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 …