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Literary Work Modernist Faith
334 wordsModernism as a theory refers to love to whatever is modern. It has to do with a literary writing. It aims at a deep-seated alteration from outer issues to more philosophical ones. When we have a cocktail of literary genres such as realism, humanism, naturalism, etc, this means that we are working as modernist writers or critics. According to Modernist upholders, God is responsible for nature. They believe also that the world around them is losing meaning and altering to garbage; consequently the...
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Vincent Van Gogh Oil On Canvas
1,980 wordsRunning Head: Modernism Name: Course: Tutor: December 28 th 2011 Introduction In the history of art, the phrase modern normally refers to an era dating from roughly the 1860 s to 1935 and describes the ideology and style of art produced during that period. The phrase modernism is used to refer to the art of the modern era. Modernism is typified by the rejection of tradition. In the nineteenth and twentieth century, there was a predicament in art. Being able to paint convincing images of mythical...
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Postmodern Spatial Ity Represses Temporal Ity Space
4,978 wordsThe impetus behind this paper has been the recent publication of Fredric Jameson's 1991 Welleck Lectures, The Seeds of Time. 1 As these lectures were delivered a decade after Jameson's initial attempts to map the terrain of postmodernity it appeared to me to provide an occasion to reflect upon the current status of Jameson's highly influential and much criticised theory of postmodernism as the cultural logic of late capitalism. It also enables me to return to, what I consider to be, one of the m...
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Quot Poetry Mass Culture
1,870 wordsJames Smethurst No portion of Hughess literary career has been more commonly dismissed than that of the 1930 s. Even many of Hughess admirers compare unfavorably his writings of the 1930 s to his work in other decades. In this view, Hughess 1930 s efforts in many different genres including short and long fiction, poetry, drama, reportage, song writing largely sounded over and over the same ham-fisted didactic note, lacking the lyric humanism and folk wit of his work in the 1920 s, 1940 s, and 19...
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