The Arts and Craft movement was a social and artistic movement‚ which began in Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century and continued into the twentieth spreading to continental Europe and the USA. Its adherents-artists‚ architects‚ designers and Craftsmen sought to reassert the importance of and craftsmanship in all arts in the face of increasing industrialization‚ which they felt was sacrificing quality in the pursuit of quantity. Its supporters and practioners were united not so much
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He is most popular for his concept of cultural hegemony‚ which describes how states use cultural institutions to maintain power in capitalist societies‚ (Morton‚ 2003). This paper analyses Gramsci ’s concepts of the historical bloc‚ his use of historicism‚ the concept of hegemony and how these aspects critically revolutionized theories of Socialism and Marxism. BACKGROUND: ANTONIO GRAMSCI (1891-1937). Antonio Gramsci was an Italian writer‚ politician and political theorist born on 23 January 1891
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humanism A new concept of human individuality‚ originating in the citystates of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy‚ that was based on desire for excellence in scholarship‚ creative work‚ and education. The humanist movement spread to northern Europe‚ France‚ England‚ and elsewhere‚ and continued to flourish until the mid-seventeenth century. Among its more familiar literary figures are‚ in Italy‚ Dante Alighieri‚ Francesco Petrarca (known as Petrarch)‚ Giovanni Boccaccio‚ Baldassare
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to compete with each other’s thoughts in order to find the one true and universal philosophy. But he also argued that each philosopher’s views were integral to the development and growth of the truth. Hegel’s principles were also founded on historicism; in order to fully understand any aspect of life‚ one must look past all superficial observations and understand the aspects’ history and background.. Hegel’s philosophies attempted to tie in these basic fundamentals with mankind’s unending pursuit
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How does desire disrupt the representation of unified identity in John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore? Representations of sexuality in Early Modern literature reveal a variety of attitudes‚ but they can be characterised by the ambivalence which they display towards the subject of desire and its consequences for the self. The destructive potential of desire is revealed in John Ford’s Tis Pity She’s A Whore‚ widely considered to be one of the most radical works of Jacobean theatre‚ not only for
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English september 8‚ 2009 Literary Perspectives The following information was excerpted from The Bedford Introduction to Literature‚ 8th edition‚ 2079–2098 Formalist critics are primarily concerned with the language‚ structure‚ and tone of a work‚ otherwise known‚ as it’s “formal elements”. Formalists gravitate towards “intrinsic” matters in a piece of literature‚ in simpler terms‚ diction‚ irony‚ paradox‚ metaphor‚ and symbol. In a similar fashion‚ they emphasize larger elements
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The Thought is What Counts (In Discussion: Jesus Revealing Himself to St. Teresa of Avila) “I have strayed far from any intention‚ for I was trying to give the reasons why this kind of vision cannot be the work of the imagination. How could we picture Christ’s Humanity by merely studying the subject or form any impression of His great beauty by means of the imagination?” (Page 632 Paragraph 1). This selection brings a great question forward. How can we? St. Teresa in her book The Raptures of St
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Johnny West was born in an Anglo-Irish family in London in 1964. He was a scholar at Balliol college‚ Oxford. He worked for Reuters as a correspondent. He spent in the Middle East about 10 years. He worked in Afghanistan after 9/11 and spent three years there where he built networks of local radio stations. In 2008‚ he translated an Iraqi account of the gulf war into English. He now works for the United Nations in the Middle East. He speaks Arabic‚ French and Persian well. Johnny West ‘s book aims
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Tradition answer in Eliot T.S. Eliot’s essay‚ Tradition and the Individual Talent (1920) is one of the earliest offerings of his literary theory. The essay outlines his philosophy of "tradition" and the implications this has for the poet‚ critic‚ and scholar. Tradition for Eliot includes a much broader definition than is recognized by the popular conception of the term. His idea of tradition includes psychological and philosophical aspects‚ and sets forth of the aims of poetry‚ the role of the poet
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Stanisław Wyspianski – The Wedding I assume that everyone‚ who ever got in contact with The Wedding by Stanisław Wyspianski‚ has also got in contact with the informations connected with the play. I mean‚ it is inevitable to come to know‚ that Wypianski’s The Wedding is based on real situation – wedding – which took place at the village of Bronowice near Cracow on November 1900. It is inevitable to come to know‚ that it was a wedding of Wyspianski’s fellow poet Lucjan Rydel with a peasant girl
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