Innovative or Simply Post-Modern? Cultural Significance in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita America during the 1950s was both materialistic and socially conservative with less rebellion. Before this‚ Puritan thought still invaded and controlled many social and literary cultural norms. Many people still feared the ideas of consumerism and modernity‚ but as the times changed‚ this new generation of American culture slowly but surely worked its way into society. The nation was straying away from its old Puritan
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31st October 2011 The Corset: Instrument of Oppression or Power "I must tell you something of significance. Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. The problem of fashion in 1925 was different. Women were just beginning to go to work in offices. I inspired the cutting of the hair short because it goes with the modern woman. To the woman going to work‚ I said to take off the bone corset‚ because women cannot work while they are imprisoned in a corset
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Novels are read to experience a fantasy created by the author. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was no exception. The journey described was original and exciting. This novel originality was accepted differently by different identities. Such examples are Sir Walter Scott‚ who considered the work superb while a “Quarterly Review” editor considered it to be on the verge of insanity. These two authors use different and similar rhetorical styles to convey their opinions. The most glaring difference between
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Heather Larry Mrs. Lawrence 11th Adv. Am. Lit/1st Period 20 November 2009 Vaudeville “Nobody seems to know how television is going to affect radio‚ movies‚ love‚ housekeeping‚ or the church‚ but it has definitely revived vaudeville” (thinkexist.com). Edgar Bergen’s statement concisely describes how vaudeville has returned in the modern era. It is ironic that television‚ which was partly responsible for the disappearance of vaudeville in its original form‚ has now played a role in the return
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An Introduction to Satire sat.ire n. 1. 2. A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony‚ derision‚ or wit. Irony‚ sarcasm‚ or caustic [bitterly cutting/burning] wit used to attack or expose folly‚ vice‚ or stupidity. (dictionary.com) Ian Johnston‚ retired instructor at Malaspina University-College‚ Nanaimo‚ British Columbia‚ Canada‚ offers helpful information in more clearly defining the use and characteristics of satire: Purpose of Satire: “If we see someone or
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dramatic‚ theatrical and comic‚ but his roots lie in France‚ he was greatly influenced by his interaction with the Italian Commedia dell ’Arte (Pergolizzi 1‚ 2). These performers were known for both their extemporary speech specializing in impious burlesque and extremely physical performances (1). Though he received the applause of the court‚ Molière ’s satires drew criticisms from moralists and the Roman Catholic Church who forced the king to ban his works (Lawall 10). Molière first comedy The Affected
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seen with another woman in unusual clothing. Furthermore‚ the fact that Claudio is then willing (in the end) to marry someone different‚ despite being tricked into it and the woman actually being Hero‚ seems unlikely if he really did love Hero. Burlesque: Over the top actions or thought/speech pattern. EG: The way Benedick is so against marriage he lists ridiculous and outrageous situations he’d rather be in than in marriage. The way he hates women so much he would rather pull his eyeball out with
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approach to her writing‚ and described everything down to the smell of the earth that was "pungent[and]‚ spiced with the odor of cattle manure" (Angelou 11)‚ thus‚ giving her passage a sense of romanticism and clearly being the counter of Fisher’s burlesque
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In Florence the term of sodomy was used as “a basic key to the complex code of sexual word plays the permeate the entire genre of ‘burlesque’ poetry and bawdy carnival songs” (Rocke‚ 1996‚ p. 4). In Rocke’s (1996) paper it shows the laws dating back to the fourteenth century against sodomy were found though they were not always enforced within that society (p. 4). Acts of sodomy were not ideal in society at this time because with the church being in rule they regarded sodomy as a sin because it was
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to pay tribute to Pavlova‚ in which had a solo‚ The Dying Swan that had left a huge impact on ballet devotees throughout the entire world. In chapter two Pioneer Women‚ this chapter discusses how the different types of dance such as vaudeville‚ burlesque and others featured women as the main display of the concert. The reasoning for that is because a convention had assumed that the female
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