Alphonse Mucha & Art Nouveau New York: Dateline 1939: Alphonse Mucha‚ the highly regarded Art Nouveau artist passed away today‚ July 14‚ 1939‚ shortly after being questioned by the Gestapo. Since the late Victorian period‚ Mucha’s art‚ in particular‚ his posters that hang in many homes and businesses‚ has enriched the world with its beauty. Mucha was born in 1860 in southern Moravia‚ which at the time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His rural roots resulted in a deep folk art influence
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The forces of literary traditionalism must often take the field of battle against the raging hordes of heterodoxy. The standard bearers for traditionalism are often the ghosts of once influential critics‚ such as the romantic era poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ who is assailed by the contemporary Irishman Seamus Heaney. Their battlefield‚ the Shakespearean play Hamlet‚ with its spectral overtones‚ is a fitting text for the living to slay the dead in the combat of ideas and interpretations. Shakespearean
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should best go about the study of history and of social change. This led to his ideal-typical method. 3. Weber’s ideal typical method‚ was a way of trying to account for social and political phenomena without falling into the traps of evolutionism‚ historicism and positivism. For Weber‚ we can detect patterns or trends in history‚ but no overall pattern or monocausal theory of development (so against ‘crude’ Marxism which explains all social phenomena by economic
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http://www.translationdirectory.com/article301.htm Literary Translation: Recent Theoretical Developments By Sachin Ketkar Lecturer in English SB Garda College‚ Navsari www.geocities.com/sachinketkar sachinketkar@yahoo.com Literary studies have always‚ explicitly or implicitly‚ presupposed a certain notion of `literariness ’ with which it has been able to delimit its domain‚ specify‚ and sanction its methodologies and approaches to its subject. This notion of `literariness ’ is crucial
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John C. Wright History – 386 Dr. Blum 11/02/2012 Exam #2 This exam is a reflection on the German state‚ and how it came to be‚ as well as a look into the actual obstacles that Bismarck had to overcome in order to join the Germanic states in to one‚ solid German nation. This will be accomplished by focusing on significant people and significant political and economic views that they held to show the differing positions in 1848 – 1849‚ and by looking at pertinent facts in the 1850s. This
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Hegel and Historical Cause and Effect Theory of Knowledge Who was Hegel? Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher who wrote during the beginning of the 19th Century. His great achievement was to introduce for the first time in philosophy the idea that History and the concrete are important in getting out of the circle of the perennial problems of philosophy. Also‚ for the first time in the history of philosophy he realized the importance of the Other in the coming to be of self-consciousness
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Formalism and New Criticism “Formalism” is‚ as the name implies‚ an interpretive approach that emphasizes literary form and the study of literary devices within the text. The work of the Formalists had a general impact on later developments in “Structuralism” and other theories of narrative. “Formalism‚” like “Structuralism‚” sought to place the study of literature on a scientific basis through objective analysis of the motifs‚ devices‚ techniques‚ and other “functions” that comprise the literary
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The Arts and Craft movement was a social and artistic movement‚ which began in Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century and continued into the twentieth spreading to continental Europe and the USA. Its adherents-artists‚ architects‚ designers and Craftsmen sought to reassert the importance of and craftsmanship in all arts in the face of increasing industrialization‚ which they felt was sacrificing quality in the pursuit of quantity. Its supporters and practioners were united not so much
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He is most popular for his concept of cultural hegemony‚ which describes how states use cultural institutions to maintain power in capitalist societies‚ (Morton‚ 2003). This paper analyses Gramsci ’s concepts of the historical bloc‚ his use of historicism‚ the concept of hegemony and how these aspects critically revolutionized theories of Socialism and Marxism. BACKGROUND: ANTONIO GRAMSCI (1891-1937). Antonio Gramsci was an Italian writer‚ politician and political theorist born on 23 January 1891
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humanism A new concept of human individuality‚ originating in the citystates of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy‚ that was based on desire for excellence in scholarship‚ creative work‚ and education. The humanist movement spread to northern Europe‚ France‚ England‚ and elsewhere‚ and continued to flourish until the mid-seventeenth century. Among its more familiar literary figures are‚ in Italy‚ Dante Alighieri‚ Francesco Petrarca (known as Petrarch)‚ Giovanni Boccaccio‚ Baldassare
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