Modernism  (tagged articles)

The Everyday as Empowering: Violence and Suburban Monotony in the Interwar Writing of George Orwell

Florence Ward - In the opening of J. M. Richards’s post-war account of suburbia, The Castles on the Ground, the author's commentary is unusually sympathetic to a phenomenon that throughout the twentieth-century had either been critically neglected or judged as monotonous, conservative... Keep Reading »

Challenging the Gender Dichotomy in the Victorian Era: Reading Hemingway's Up in Michigan and Mansfield's Frau Brechenmacher Together

Kimberly Taylor - Sexual violence and coercion became hot topics in 2017, with endless headlines. However, these problems and issues are not new, nor are they confined to a single segment of society. Rather, they have longstanding roots within patriarchal society viewing the sexes as... Keep Reading »
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Consumption as Postmodern Ideology in China

Christopher E. Barnett - Jean Baudrillard makes the argument that in a postmodern globalized world, in which competing utopian metanarratives from both sides of the political spectrum have been exposed as failures, society is no longer constructed or ordered through common political ideology... Keep Reading »

Appellate Attorney as Storyteller: A Postmodern Analysis of Narrative in Appellate Briefs

Michelle Villanueva - The idea that narrative has an important role to play in the legal process is not a particularly radical one, at least since the rise of the scripted courtroom drama as entertainment. After all, this is a common genre in television and movies. The courtroom drama is... Keep Reading »

The Drama and Romance of Suicide in "Mrs. Dalloway" and "Madame Bovary"

Jessica N. Laird - Is it noble to take your own life? Across the ages there have been many different interpretations of the morality of suicide, leading many novels to portray and examine the act. In Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, a traumatized veteran Septimus takes his life rather... Keep Reading »
 
 

The keyword Modernism is tagged in the following 15 articles.

English Literature
2020, Vol. 12 No. 02
The Everyday as Empowering: Violence and Suburban Monotony in the Interwar Writing of George Orwell
By Florence Ward
In the opening of J. M. Richards’s post-war account of suburbia, The Castles on the Ground, the author's commentary is unusually sympathetic to a phenomenon that throughout the twentieth-century had either been critically neglected or judged... Read Article »
George Orwell English Literature Suburbia Interwar Period World War II Suburbia Urban Modernism
Feminist Literature
2018, Vol. 10 No. 03
Challenging the Gender Dichotomy in the Victorian Era: Reading Hemingway's Up in Michigan and Mansfield's Frau Brechenmacher Together
By Kimberly Taylor
Sexual violence and coercion became hot topics in 2017, with endless headlines. However, these problems and issues are not new, nor are they confined to a single segment of society. Rather, they have longstanding roots within patriarchal society... Read Article »
Ernest Hemingway Katherine Mansfield Feminist Literature Modernism American Literature Victorian Literature
Postmodernism
2016, Vol. 8 No. 11
Consumption as Postmodern Ideology in China
By Christopher E. Barnett
Jean Baudrillard makes the argument that in a postmodern globalized world, in which competing utopian metanarratives from both sides of the political spectrum have been exposed as failures, society is no longer constructed or ordered through common... Read Article »
China Postmodernism Consumerism Consumption Baudrillard Postmodern Society Chinese Culture
Legal Process
2015, Vol. 7 No. 02
Appellate Attorney as Storyteller: A Postmodern Analysis of Narrative in Appellate Briefs
By Michelle Villanueva
The idea that narrative has an important role to play in the legal process is not a particularly radical one, at least since the rise of the scripted courtroom drama as entertainment. After all, this is a common genre in television and movies. The... Read Article »
Legal Process Court Appeals Court Appellate Briefs Legal Writing Postmodernism
Virginia Woolf
2014, Vol. 6 No. 10
The Drama and Romance of Suicide in "Mrs. Dalloway" and "Madame Bovary"
By Jessica N. Laird
Is it noble to take your own life? Across the ages there have been many different interpretations of the morality of suicide, leading many novels to portray and examine the act. In Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, a traumatized veteran Septimus... Read Article »
Virginia Woolf Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary Mrs. Dalloway Realism Modernism
Metaphysics
2014, Vol. 6 No. 03
Baudrillard's Vision of the Postmodern Society and the Hope for Human Action
By Gian Carla D. Agbisit
This paper is about the numbing of man’s critical impulse brought about by consumer society, a society obsessed with speed, and is characterized by a constant consumption of products—of good things turning into goods, of culture with... Read Article »
Baudrillard Postmodern Society Human Action Metaphysics Postmodernism
Modernism
2012, Vol. 4 No. 08
Dialogic Conflict and Speech Identity in Jean Rhys' Let Them Call it Jazz
By Grace E. Afsari-Mamagani
Confined to prison following her inability to pay a five-pound fine, Selina Davis situates herself outside a traditional system. She plays the role of “other” in interactions of race, class, and gender. Her narrative perspective drives... Read Article »
Semiotics Speech Language Race Gender Literary Theory Modernism Identity Dialog Jean Rhys
Modernism
2012, Vol. 4 No. 06
The Glass House as Gay Space: Exploring the Intersection of Homosexuality and Architecture
By Mark J. Stern
Philip Johnson is, without a doubt, one of the most famous architects of the 20th century. He was also gay, a fact known to some in his intimate social circle but certainly not to most in his field and absolutely not to the general public. His outward... Read Article »
Glass House Homosexuality Philip Johnson Modernism Architecture Design
Vietnam
2011, Vol. 3 No. 08
Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried: Postmodern Fiction for a Postmodern War
By Laurence R. Kowalewski
In the western history of human existence the event, idea, and act of war stands totemic in the landscape. Borders both physical and mental have been defined by its threat and execution, and its aura hangs heavily over the last century as the bloodiest... Read Article »
Vietnam War Fiction Postmodernism Trauma Studies Tim O'Brien
Kurt Vonnegut
2011, Vol. 3 No. 04
PostModernism in Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle
By Derek D. Miller
“No damn cat, and no damn cradle.” (Vonnegut 66). This quote encompasses the satiric postmodern themes of absolute truth in Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle. There are several significantly strong postmodern concepts Vonnegut brings... Read Article »
Kurt Vonnegut Postmodernism Cat's Cradle
British Modernism
2011, Vol. 3 No. 03
Rebecca West's "The Return of the Soldier": Analyzing the Interrelationship of Male and Female Traumas
By Emily R. Hershman
Rebecca West’s 1918 novel The Return of the Soldier dissects the socioeconomic and psychological tensions wrought by the upheaval of the First World War. In a nuanced reiteration of the typical trope of a soldier’s return, Christopher... Read Article »
Rebecca West World War I British Modernism Women in Literature The Return Of the Soldier Trauma
William Faulkner
2010, Vol. 2 No. 11
Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom!" and the Mysterious Rosa Coldfield
By Alicia D. Costello
William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! begins in the year 1833, when the stranger, Thomas Stupen, rides into Jefferson, Mississippi, and promptly begins building himself an empire. He builds a plantation named Stupen’s Hundred, takes a... Read Article »
William Faulkner Rosa Coldfield Absalom Absalom Modernism American Literature
Islamic Modernism
2010, Vol. 2 No. 05
Islamic Modernism: Responses to Western Modernization in the Middle East
By Yevgeniya Baraz
By the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, a large part of the Muslim world had begun to lose much of its cultural and political sovereignty to Christian occupiers from Europe. This came as a result of European trade missions during earlier... Read Article »
Islamic Modernism Islamic Modernization Westernization Arab Modernism Middle East Western Modernization
Virgina Woolf
2010, Vol. 2 No. 02
Virginia Woolf on the Role of the Artist in the Modern World
By Natasha L. Richter
Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse follows the development of the painter, Lily Briscoe, as she strives to create a meaningful space for her artwork in an increasingly critical and unkind world.  Woolf’s stylistic devices, especially... Read Article »
Virginia Woolf Modernism Poetry Art Form Time Impermanence Modernity To the Lighthouse
Absurdism
2009, Vol. 1 No. 11
Absurdism in Post-Modern Art: Examining the Interplay between "Waiting for Godot" and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
By Elizabeth L. Bolick
Post-modern art is permeated by Absurdism. The Post-World War II Absurdist movement centered on the idea that life is irrational, illogical, incongruous, and without reason (Esslin xix). The ‘Theater of the Absurd’, named by theater... Read Article »
Absurdism Waiting For Godot Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close Post-modern Art Modernism Post Modernism

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