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Western Literature Modernist Period...of the Modernist period respond to the promise, or threat, of a new century by either welcoming the flux and indeterminacy of a new and "modern" world in which identities, social relations, and meaning structures can be made and unmade according to need, opportunity and desire. Or, they regard the prospect of this modern world, wherein human beings can expect to find neither truth nor certainty with dark pessimism, stoicism, or outright despair. One significant aspect of modernist literature is the focus on such themes as mistrust in institutions such as government and religion; individualism and the discrediting of truths that before then were considered to be the absolute truths. The...
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Karl Marx: Main Themes and Ideas in Marxs Works...Main Themes and Ideas in Marx’s Thought
If there is a single idea that best represents Karl Marx is the idea of Communism. Though often misunderstood and interchanged with Socialism, Communism is the stage where social stratification is not present. Where a state no longer exists, a society that is classless where industry or the means of production are or industry commonly owned by the proletariat and the workers. They would also have a free access to those products created by the means of production, or the articles of consumption where wage labor is ended and private properties no longer exists in the means of production.
Communism is a period in the historical...
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Main Themes and Ideas in Marxs Thought...Main Themes and Ideas in Marx’s Thought
Communism is a central theme in Karl Marx’s ideology. Though often interchanged with Socialism, Communism is rather different from Socialism in many aspects. Communism is the final stage of Marx’s ideology where the means of production or industry are commonly owned by the proletariat or the working class. Where they would have an unfettered access to the fruit of their production, where the articles of consumption is no longer unevenly distributed, where wage labor is ended and private ownership of the means of production no longer exists. It is a stage where social classes or stratification is no more as well as the necessity of a...
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Modernist Trends toward Abstraction...Modernist trends toward ion ion mainly developed in the 20th century with movements such as expressionism, futurism, cubism and fauvism. During the two world wars, abstraction continued to flourish and became a major feature of the western art in the 1930s. The Abstract Expressionism emerged as the best artistic feature in the United States after the World War II and had a great influence on the American and European painting and sculpture. In the 21st century, abstract art had become outstanding alongside the figurative and conceptual work. The main feature that characterizes the modern thought is an escapable tendency towards abstraction. The artists’ thoughts today are mainly focused on the modern trends...
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Post-Modernist Architecture...such field where the computer and digital imaging is used to create dynamic backdrop integrated with images, video clips and imagery. The high quality animation has the power to use text and message integrated in way to make very powerful digital presentation of the product or the commodity. Urban screens have been used as digital prototype for presentations which are clear, direct and precise. The additional feature of the video clips and the music also has penetrating effect on the psyche. This tool used a mechanism to generate propaganda is very effective and efficient. It allows for "the transmission ideas and values"(Taylor,1979) (http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/propaganda/pol2.html)...
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Modernist Literature.... Alfred Prufrock," published in its entirety for the first time in Eliot's first volume of poetry in 1917, often is credited by critics as being the first Modernist poem. Several themes permeate "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" that would later come to characterize both Modernist literature specifically and twentieth-century literature in general: particularly alienation and loneliness, the disintegration of culture in bourgeois society, and the fear of aging and mortality. Because Prufrock's specific intent is unspoken, critics have read the poem on many different levels. Allusion-jammed, though Eliot's poetry is, and dealing with complex emotions and complex ideas...
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Modernist Painting...Modernist Painting Modernist Painting Clement Greenberg, in “Modern Painting” (1963), says that Modernism includes theaspects of our society which are alive. Greenberg, like many formalists, emphasizes the importance of the visual elements. According to Greenberg, the essential nature of modernism lies intrinsically in the determination of each piece of art’s (painting or sculpture) unique and irreducible character. To him, this process would render the art ‘pure’, and it is this purity which would establish its standards of quality and independence. In the article he tries to portray purity as self definition, and this boils down to an issue of the medium used.
In painting, he adds on, this limit is made up of the flat surface... , the...
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Modernist Movement in Poetry...to the sense of loss and destruction that an individual has due to the radical changes in the society and the wars (Kuhn 4 & Park 26). It is a form of rebellion against the Victorian era which ideals are more towards pleasing the audience. Modernists poets aim to express their thoughts, good or bad, about the real world (Kuhn 4).
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Aside from being a form of rebellion towards anything traditional, the modernist movement is also aimed at social change. This may be linked to the idea that “the elements that form the society are what led to the World Wars” (Kuhn 11). It is said that modernism shows how people lost confidence in progress, optimism, and beauty...
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Themes...Insert The Great Gatsby and Winter Dreams by Scott Fitzgerald Gender Roles Fitzgerald (3) depicts most scenes of the novel in a relatively conservative manner and inclined in favor of men
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Men work to earn income for the sustaining the family, which basically makes them literally dominant over the women
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In Tom, readers get the picture of the typical man’s dominant role over women based on his bodily strength (Fitzgerald 133).
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Ironically, the reversal of gender roles is evident in the relationship between Nick and the relatively masculine Jordan.
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However, as the curtains close, Jordan’s masculine role is reduced to nothing as Nick succeeds to exert his authority over her by terminating the relationship...
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Early modernist art movements...Early Modernist Art Movements
Introduction
People communicate many ways with each other. Music, curving, and any other form of art has existed for a very time now and has been perhaps the most important method of passing on culture from one generation the other. Paintings and drawings are a very popular way through which the people today have come to learn about how the past was, thousands and hundreds of years ago. Portraits such as that of the Mona Lisa still draw a lot of attention yet it has been around for hundreds of years. Since art is clearly among the fields that the human race has taken as seriously as possible, it is evident that it has a lot of impact on how we relate with each other and like every other...
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