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    Modernism

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    1st slide • Luis Bunuel was born on the 22nd of February 1900 in Spain • In his youth Bunuel was deeply religious serving at mass and taking communion everyday‚ until the age of 16 when he became disgusted with what he perceived as the illogically of the church along with its power and wealth • From a young age Bunuel showed evidence of surrealist thinking and a negative outlook towards religion and realism. • When Bunuel died at the age of 83 he left behind a legacy‚ he was know as the father

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    Understanding Lily Understanding Virginia Woolf’s mind within the weaving prose of To the Lighthouse is an undertaking that forces the reader to step back and consider‚ and indeed‚ reconsider everything that has just been read‚ assuming of course‚ that everything within her evolving story is remembered and comprehended. Woolf is known to challenge her readers with her unstructured worldview as to how an individual appears as people perceive the world around them. She uses her novels for more than

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    Who’s Afraid of Virginai Woolf Passage Analysis – pages 30 and 128 The final moment in the play provides a strong sense of resolution for the relationship of George and Martha in contrast with the merciless bickering that makes up much of the action of the drama. The cathartic ‘exorcism’ of illusion leaves all four characters able to embrace a new beginning this is particularly true of Martha and George. The hysteria and escalating conflict of earlier scenes is culminates in a final scene that

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    Modernism vs. Post Modernism The ideas of modernism and post modernism are fundamentally different. Modernism is the belief that human beings can improve their environment‚ using scientific knowledge‚ technology and putting all of those things into practice. Modernism is prevalent in the field of arts. The concept of post modernism looks at the ideas behind modernism and questions whether they really exist. (wikipedia) Modernism began in the early 1800’s. It emerged with Manet and Baudelaire

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    Woolf and Joyce Comparison

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    "I have read 200 pages [of Ulysses] so far‚" Virginia Woolf writes in her diary for 16 August 1922‚ and reports that she has been "amused‚ stimulated‚ charmed[‚] interested ... to the end of the Cemetery scene." As "Hades" gives way to "Aeolus‚" however‚ and the novel of character and private sensibility yields to a farrago of styles‚ she is "puzzled‚ bored‚ irritated‚ & disillusioned"--by no grand master of language‚ in her characterization‚ but "by a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples

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    Modernism sociologically‚ is a discipline that arose in direct response to the social problems of "modernity" (Harriss 2000‚ 325); the term most generally refers to the social conditions‚ processes‚ and discourses of 1438-1789 and extending to the 1970s or later (Toulmin 1992‚ 3–5). Modernity may also refer to tendencies in intellectual culture‚ particularly the movements intertwined with secularization and post-industrial life‚ such as Marxism‚ existentialism‚ and the formal establishment of social

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    MODERNISM Even if under the term “Modernism” there are different movements including Symbolism‚ Post-Impressionism‚ Cubism‚ Futurism and so on‚ common features were the awareness of the sperimental studies that had developed in other disciplines and the loss of faith in the traditional vision of reality and art. As a consequence “modernism” became synonymous with reaction and opposition to the traditional expressive form‚ mainly to representational art. It was persistently experimental and gave

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    Modernism and Post Modernism Have you ever wondered what the differences are between the modernism and post modernism? It seems like it would be easy to describe what they are by the words and what they are usually associated with. Yet‚ it’s actually a lot different then your thinking. Modernism is the movement in visual arts‚ music‚ literature‚ and drama‚ which rejected the old Victorian standards of how art should be made‚ consumed‚ and what it should mean. Modernists want the absolute truth

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    La Jument Lighthouse

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    The name of this well known light house is La Jument. It is located in Brittany‚ France.  The lighthouse is built on a rock about 300 meters from the coast of the island of Ushant in the middle of the ocean. Construction of this lighthouse began in 1904 but wasn’t finished until 1911 due to the rough seas and weather conditions. The west coast of Northern France has always been known for its rough seas. This heavily trafficked sea line experiences severe weather during much of the year. This area

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    2011 HSC In what ways does a comparative study accentuate the distinctive contexts of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Room of One’s Own? Context is vividly reflected through artistic texts over time in order to assert the author’s opinion on the same human issues‚ such as truth. Virginia Woolf’s A room of one’s own (1928) dismantles the strength of the patriarchy and their singular truth‚ through the creative form of her lecture given at a women’s college‚ to empower women to speak

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