Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 1134 for “"modernity"”.
-
Odd Nerdrum, Kitsch & Modernity
<p>This paper will evaluate the value of bad art, calling into question the function of aesthetic experience as defined philosophically, psycho-socially and ethically. We shall find that bad art serves an important artistic and aesthetic, social and economic role in our globalized modern culture. …
-
Waste*lands : landscape photography modernity
… wastelands to harness a picture of contemporary modernity. The two combine to create a practical and poetic, a social and flaneurial picture of wastelands. I identify wastelands as the material manifestation of industrial modernity. Although wasteland is an overarching term used to describe …
-
Literary urbanism, visuality and modernity
… Empire inspired Charles Baudelaire‘s theories of modernity and aesthetic history. Chapter two discusses how A.C. Swinburne translates Baudelairean modernity into an English literary perspective through Sapphic poetry, and the importance Swinburne‘s association with painters has in this process. …
-
Anglophone Chinese modernity,1860-1910
… an alternative perspective on Chinese literary modernity and its historical conditions, conceptual presuppositions, theoretical underpinnings, and literariness as defined by Anglophone subjects who lived a cross-national existence between China and the United States. I argue that anti-writing as …
-
'After Modernity', from Solovyov to Bulgakov
… programme as a ‘positive overcoming of Modernity’. In this, he was seeking to consummate the reconstruction of Christian thought and culture undertaken in the last two decades of the 19th-century, by Vladimir Solovyóv. In fact, Bulgakov had been carrying forward this project from the …
-
Pandemonium: An essay on predation and modernity
Our modern world is driven by processes of abstraction. These processes have recently begun to generate criteria of industrial and organizational formation radically different from those to which we became accustomed to during the modernist era. And as we are not held in thrall so much anymore to …
-
‘Edmund Burke: Religion and Eighteenth-Century Modernity’
… twentieth and twenty-first century theories of modernity can help to articulate Burke’s conception of religion. <br/>Studies that have categorically seated Burke in the context of ‘modernity’ (for example, from Terry Eagleton, Paddy Bullard, and Stephen K. White) treat him as a ‘politician’, as …
-
Reformed theology, modernity and the environment crisis
… ecological disaster fundamental challenge to modernity as the poses a dominant contemporary socio-cultural matrix. This challenge can only be responded to through a radical socio-cultural transformation which favours those, human and otherkind, who have been marginalised and oppressed by …
-
Negotiating Modernity: Cultural Reform in 1920s Hungary
… the contradictory desires in approaching modernity provides a new, more complex explanation for the polarization of the region's societies, their political instability and their infamous manifestations of authoritarianism, illiberality, ethnic conflict and anti-Semitism. No longer viewed …
-
M.I.celium mexicanus: Rejecting Modernity through Zapotec Futurism
[M.I.]celium mexicanus is an entry point for architects and humans to consider transforming their relationship to the Earth’s critical zone through reconciliation with mushrooms to cultivate fungal allyship. The thesis examines and reimagines a future of building that drives towards the biological …
-
Illegible Subjects: Knowledge and American Modernity, 1898-1985
… late writing of Henry James militates against modernity’s reduction of all aspects of life to what is profitable and quantifiable by celebrating forms of human subjectivity and relation that are purposeless, unpredictable, and porous. Next, I interrogate how Nella Larsen’s Quicksand suggests …
-
Party Politics in Intercivilisational Encounters : The Modernity Cleavage
… Politics in Intercivilisational Encounters: The Modernity Cleavage Abstract The thesis presents an extension of the Lipset - Rokkan model of cleavage-based party politics. It employs concepts of civilisational analysis, particularly the concept of multiple modernities as devised by Shmuel …
-
Tracing the boundaries: women, nation & modernity in Turkey
… between the discourses of nationalism, modernity and gender. The analysis of the case studies gives a clear, if not all comprehensive view, of the heated debates going on in Turkey, about what Turkishness entails, and where its identity can be located. While an unambiguous location does …
-
Confronting modernity: urbanization and American fiction, 1880-1930
… the subject of the fiction. Urbanization made modernity manifest in three ways: the close proximity and racial diversity of city life, the (limited) mobility urbanization offered women, and the growth of consumer culture. Drawing on debates from turn of the century urban planning and sociology, …
-
Leisure and Modernity in late 19th Century Shanghai
… an integral role in the formation of Shanghai modernity from the mid nineteenth century. This thesis provides a study of how entertainment culture became an important part of signal associated with modernity of the city in late 19th century and how it reflected urban social and culture change.
-
Dreaming Woman: Argentine Modernity and the Psychoanalytic Diaspora
<p>Dreaming Woman decenters Europeanist histories of psychoanalysis by examining the ways in which forced migration has shaped psychoanalytic theories of sexual difference and evolving modes of feminist practice in Latin America. Home to more psychoanalysts per capita than any other country, …
Page 1 of 57