THE CRISIS OF MODERNITY: CULTURE‚ NATURE‚ AND THE MODERNIST YEARNING FOR AUTHENTICITY Dissertation zur Erlangung der Würde einer Doktorin der Philosophie vorgelegt der Philosophisch-Historischen Fakultät der Universität Basel und der Faculté des Lettres‚ Langues et Sciences Humaines der Universität Orléans von Ann-Catherine Nabholz von Zürich Basel 2007 i Genehmigt von der Philosophisch-Historischen Fakultät der Universität Basel‚ auf Antrag von Prof. Dr. Hartwig Isernhagen (Universität Basel)
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becoming acknowledged both as a novelist and as a poet is a rare one. One thinks of Emily Bronte‚ Thomas Hardy and Lawrence Durrell (with whom Aldington would conduct a famous literary correspondence later in life)‚ but the list is a short one. Death of a Hero was highly commended many years after its publication by Durrell‚ and while one has to be careful about this since Durrell was being sycophantic and could lay flattery on with a trowel when he felt like it‚ his judgement is sound. It has a fair
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Biography of Roger McGough [pic] McGough was born in Litherland‚ Lancashire‚ to the north of Liverpool‚ the city with which he is firmly associated‚ and was educated at the University of Hull at a time when Philip Larkin was the librarian there. Returning to Merseyside in the early 1960s‚ he worked as a teacher and‚ with John Gorman‚ organised arts events. After meeting Mike McGear the trio formed The Scaffold‚ working the Edinburgh Festival until they signed to Parlophone records in 1966. The
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years will never again be so profitable. Your dedication to understand your child and to teaching language‚ intellectual‚ and social skills are very important."(Durrell 9) A child that is brought up by one parent or with no parents do not receive the attention they need. These children miss out on the caring and love they desire.
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about the writing? How do you think it could be improved upon? B. Now we are going to look at some further examples of good descriptive writing‚ this time from accomplished writers. In this extract from his book ‘My Family and Other Animals’ Gerald Durrell has used a lot of figurative language to create setting. The olives seemed weighed down under
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teacher‚ Moniza Alvi now tutors for the Open College of the Arts and lives in London. Most recently she published a series of short stories ’How the Stone Found its Voice’ (2005)‚ inspired by Kipling’s Just So Stories. In 2002 she received a Cholmondeley Award for her poetry. In 2003 a selection of her poetry was published in Dutch by Wagner & Van Santen‚ publishers‚ in a translation by Kees Klok under the title ’Het land aan mijn schouder.’ Moniza Alvi was born in Lahore in Pakistan‚ the
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Life of Pi is intended‚ so Martel tells us‚ to make the reader believe in God. This bold‚ apparently evangelical‚ premise locates it on a dangerous moral high ground. D.H. Lawrence warned against using the novel as a forum for the author to assert his own moral or religious belief: Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale‚ to pull down the balance to his own predilection‚ that is immorality. (D.H. Lawrence‚ "Morality and the
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and daughter in Bremen‚ Germany. Her first collection‚ Brunizem‚ won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) and the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award. Subsequent collections have been awarded a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and in 1991 she received a Cholmondeley Award. For Bhatt‚ language is synonymous with the tongue‚ the physical act of speaking. She has described Gujarati and the Indian childhood it connects her to as "the deepest layer of my identity". However‚ English has become the language she
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Extinct Species: Dodo Bird Joseph Sulaiman Pd.2 The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) was a flightless bird endemic to the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. Related to pigeons and doves‚ it stood about a meter (3.3 feet) tall‚ weighing about 20 kilograms (44 lb)‚ living on fruit‚ and nesting on the ground. The dodo has been extinct since the mid-to-late 17th century. It is commonly used as the archetype of an extinct species because its extinction occurred during recorded human history and was directly attributable
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By Jonty Harrison Shell 2 ‘J’ Social By Jonty Harrison Shell 2 ‘J’ Social Why Were the Normandy Landings a Success On and Following the 6th June? Introduction The question of whether or not the whole of the 2nd Front‚ or just the landings‚ was a complete success‚ is still debated all around Europe today. However‚ there is one definite fact that the Allies had a victorious to the end of the war. The journey to the victory was tough‚ and I will be talking about
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