...Disjunction—the leap from one semantic, discursive, or figurative plane to another—is often associated with modernism; we think of Rimbaud, of Ezra Pound. We often associate an even more aggressive mode of disjunction with postmodernism; we think of Ashbery, of Charles Bernstein. This chapter...

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... such functions, their activities were always viewed through the lens of the “music city” topos. Adorno Theodor W Bekker Paul Those Twenties Adorno Weimar Republic World War I Beethoven Ludwig van finances of Vienna Philharmonic First Austrian Republic Hellsberg Clemens modernity Moser Hans Joachim...

... to Baudelaire, a world that would later (with Baudelaire as chief spokesman after the fact) become the hallmark of modernity and the trigger for modernism. But for him, such a double vision makes for a shattered, if at times exquisite, vision. Baudelaire is a brilliant critic, and probably the greatest poet...

...; a modern form of anti-modernism; collective economic failure; addiction to authenticity; collectivism vs. individualism; passions over interests; spiritual superiority over materialism; the temptation of political and racial utopias; an odd appropriation of promiscuity as the patrimony of Latin America...

...Cascardi tracks the implications of the central questions of modernism and modernity for philosophy and literature by setting Wittgenstein’s work in dialogue with a series of contemporary literary texts by Woolf, Stein, Beckett (with reference to Kant, Nietzsche and attending to aspects...

... in philosophically defensible terms can be found, if surprisingly, in the framework provided by Wittgenstein’s late work. Wittgenstein did not have great sympathy with modernism, but he had a modernist distrust of the lyrical subject contemplating its inwardness. And he has a corresponding leanness of style...

...), health/impairment (Britten). The critical reception of last works, both in general and in particular, is examined in the context of the long history of “late style” discourse, with its contrasting evaluative models of old age decline and apotheosis. With the rise of musical modernism and cultural...

... investigating the dynamics and historical specificities of modern African art and the opening of Zeitz MOCAA, the first large museum of contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora, which opened in Cape Town in September 2017, home and origin of the Rhodes Must Fall movement. The movement and the museum seem...

...The logic of the name, compounded by Jacques Derrida’s specific understanding of the operation the signature, is the subject of this chapter, which looks at that ways in which proper names animate, generate, and account for a number of poems from the most experimental phase of early modernism...

...The foreword explains that the book is about Modernism’s favored topic, the Great Nothing. Thus, the book is about nothingness, namelessness, nonaction, nobody, nonrepresentation, nonexpressiveness. Alexander Rehding introduces Daniel Albright as a humble collector of musical examples and Modernist...

... the “mechanistic” and the “vital.” It does so by attending to the narrative function that flat and distinctively nonhuman characters played in the multi-plot Victorian novel, showing how such characters paved the way for less narratively driven representations of subjectivity emergent with modernism. Drawing...

... the singular object of an enchanted gaze to a participant in a chorus of murmuring voices within and across the texts involved. By glancing at Woolf’s final unfinished texts, Between the Acts, “Anon,” and “The Reader,” the “Afterword” redirects our attention from the formal aspirations of high modernism...

... surprising to connect these things, given modernism’s ostensible rejection of the sedimented history of European forms and models, she ponders how this racialized landscape and family legacy contributed to the fact that as a teen and young adult, her interests turned to medieval Europe, and suggests broader...

... 1970s, and revived a social dimension from which modernism had been almost fully decoupled. As a result they mattered in ways that will have to be reconstructed. art Bradley Peter de Menil John and Dominique Greenberg Clement modernism Noland Kenneth optimism race Winkler Helen DeLuxe Show...

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...This chapter presents an account of the ontology of new television, an account of how to understand what the items on the screen fundamentally are. This is accomplished by linking new television series to debates in aesthetics and modernism about ontology, especially within painting, photography...

... medium work of art capitalism religion judgment reality Showtime experience new television Ricoeur Paul spectatorship Aristotle boredom modernity film modernism Benjamin Walter Kant Immanuel self consciousness Boardwalk Empire Buffy the Vampire Slayer FX gangster Peaky Blinders...

... to consider the variety of issues bearing on his hermeneutical task of mediating to the Jewish reader the nature and cultural significance of religious experience in Hasidism as it bears on aesthetics and thus on a Jewish modernism. Hasidism hermeneutics identity legend s mysticism Schatz Uffenheimer...

... a German Bible in which the Hebrew original would somehow be visible, can be traced to philosophical and political circumstances comparable to those that shaped Aquila's work. The “translator cultures” of Hellenism and German–Jewish modernism divested the sacred tongue of what had been its correlate...