Modernity – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 8

Beyond Modernism

Underlining (and undermining) the notion of literary merit, this book focuses on noncanonical works and asks: what happens when we look away from modernism?Seeking an alternative history of British litera…

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Understanding Cixous, Understanding Modernism

Hélène Cixous is well-known as a reader of 'modernist' writers: Joyce, Beckett, Kafka, Faulkner, Bachmann and others, while her own fiction writing forges many new directions in literature.Foremost reader…

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Andy Birtwistle
Film Sound Modernism

Despite the key contribution of sound to the development of cinema as a modern (and modernist) art form, analyses of the relationship between film and modernism often overlook the key role played by sound…

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Understanding Bakhtin, Understanding Modernism

Explores and illuminates the impact of the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin on our understanding of literary modernism.This volume explores the subject of modernism as seen through the lens of Bakhtini…

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Modernism in Wonderland

Retracing the steps of a surprising array of 20th-century writers who ventured into the fantastical, topsy-turvy world of Lewis Carroll's fictions, this book demonstrates the full extent of Carroll's lega…

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Understanding Cavell, Understanding Modernism

Stanley Cavell, undoubtedly one of the most singular and influential voices in contemporary philosophy, has written extensively on modernist art - particularly on painting, photography, music, and literat…

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American Modernism (Re)Considered

What exactly is modernism and who are modernist writers? What distinguishes American modernism from its European counterpart?American Modernism (Re)Considered questions the principal distinction between m…

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Geoff Eley
The Modernist Wish

As the 20th century recedes, how should its history be written? The 1920s and 1930s were a time of paradox, of great conflict and contradiction. If those years were the crucible of a new metropolitan mode…

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Understanding Lacan, Understanding Modernism

Presents the most wide-ranging and in-depth exploration of the influence of modernist art and literature on Jacques Lacan, emphasizing the valences of Lacanian psychoanalysis for interpretations of modern…

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Robert Glück
Jack the Modernist

"This novel is set in San Francisco in 1981, a world of loss that doesn't add up. Bob loves Jack, Joe-Toe does too, and Phyllis loses her son. Bob goes to the baths, gossips on the phone, goes to a b…

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Tashkent Modernism XX/XXI

Given its geographical location, developed resources and multicultural history, Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, continues to be one of the most important centers of Central Asia. Since the Soviet era…

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Richard Walker
Faro Modernism

A stylish exploration of one of the greatest cities for Modernist architecture in the world.Modernism, characterized by geometric shapes and flat roofs, is one of the defining architectural styles of the …

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Beci Carver
Modernism's Whims

Thomas Hardy asks of the ghost stalking him: 'Whither, O whither will your whim now draw me?' Immediately tripping up on its own laid-out comma, then pausing to howl theatrically, and hedging its bets wit…

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Johanna Frymoyer
Modernist Movements

Topic theory examines the lexicon of conventions that emerged in the late eighteenth century through which composers evoked dances, marches, hunting, the pastoral, and the supernatural. While scholars hav…

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Kerstin Bußmann, Ingrid de Becque
Women Building Modernism

Iconic buildings commissioned by women.The contribution of women to 20th-century modernism still receives relatively little attention. The male architects are still in the limelight, while the achievement…

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Understanding Sade, Understanding Modernism

The most current multidisciplinary and multivocal engagement with Sade's enduring influences on modernism and the philosophical need for continued analysis of his work and the questions it raises.From Lac…

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Philipp Meuser,
Seismic Modernism

Tashkent, the southernmost metropolis of millions in the Soviet Union, is a city redolent with architectural contrasts and paradoxes. Home to the world's most beautiful prefabricated buildings, it feature…

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Chris Moffat
Lahore After Modernism

In the decades after independence in 1947, architects in Pakistan were enlisted to build a postcolonial future -- a new world after empire. But the debris of the past could not be so easily swept aside. T…

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Chris Moffat
Lahore After Modernism

In the decades after independence in 1947, architects in Pakistan were enlisted to build a postcolonial future -- a new world after empire. But the debris of the past could not be so easily swept aside. T…

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Craig Staff
After Modernist Painting

"Revised and expanded to reflect developments in the field since the first edition was published in 2013, this book presents both a historical survey and a critical re-evaluation of the contested and…

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