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     Mercantilism (Mun‚ Colbert) Physiocracy (Quesnay‚ Turgot) Classicism (Adam Smith‚ Ricardo‚ Malthus‚ Bentham‚ Say‚ Mill) 109 • The name immediately above each rectangle are forerunners of the school.  Classicism (North‚ Cantillon)  German Historicism (List)  Marxism &

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    inextricable relations to the novel’s reception and resonance‚ as headlines of warfare in Afghanistan‚ coupled with the popular topical affairs of terrorism‚ has not come to a complete conclusion ever since the September 11 attacks (Liao‚ 2013). New Historicism literary theory would‚ thus‚ be mainly applied in the critical review‚ along with the several other approaches such as Psychoanalysis‚ Marxism and Feminism. As globalization and‚ particularly‚ Americanization undergo‚ the world is becoming even

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    A Song on the End of the World is a poem written by Czeslaw Milosz. This poem was written in 1944 very shortly after World War II. The title fits the poem very well as the poem is about how the world is coming to an end‚ but only one of God’s prophets know when the world will actually end‚ everyone else continues to live their normal life because the end of the world will happen like it is any other day. There will be no signals or warnings. It will happen when it happens. In A Song on the End

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    contrasts in the way in which both of these characters transform; this enables us to juxtapose both text and protagonist in the way these outsiders importantly redound on the story line and the other characters. In Nunez we see a strong character‚ who historicism critics could view him as a powerful country in demise given the political circumstance of the time‚ whose own dominance gradually weakens. In sharp contrast ‘T’ is the brooding‚ malevolent personification of a post World War II generation that

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    modern age come from the Bauhaus and that’s the reason the Bauhaus continues to influence us today as elements of its period are still visible in many modern environments. Art in the second half of the nineteenth century had been dominated by historicism and the foundation of the Bauhaus was the climax of the reaction against it. On March 20 of 1919‚ the Art Academy of the Grand Duchy of Saxony changed its name to Staaliches Bauhaus Weimer and a month later‚ Walter Gropius was appointed director

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    Desdemona’s role as Othello’s wife proves to be a weighty factor in the unsuccessful conversion of Othello. As Jane Hwang DeGenhardt discusses‚ a crucial aspect of the culture during this era was the idea concerning the “threat of Islamic conversion” which is “in light of England’s increased commercial engagement with the Ottoman empire” (84). In other words‚ the fear of the idea of “turning Turk” led to resistance from Christians‚ and this development was frequently represented on stage with Othello

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    Glossary (A-D) Ancient Comedy Genre Criticism Jan 21: Frogs Broadview: Glossary (E-O) Satire Farce Parody Jan 23: The Tempest Broadview: Glossary (P-W) Renaissance Drama Shakespearean Romance Jan 28: The Tempest Historicism Post-Colonialism Close Reading Assignment Due Jan 30: The Tempest Metadrama Feb 4: Essay Writing Workshop Feb 6: The Importance of Being Earnest Wit Comedy of Manners Feb 11: The Importance of Being Earnest Gender Theory

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    history‚ No Country for Old Men (Coen & Coen‚ 2007) is reminiscent of New Wave cinema with morally ambiguous or depraved protagonists in a disillusioned world. No Country for Old Men (Coen & Coen‚ 2007) stems from the broader Postmodernism and New Historicism movements‚ which emphasize a disenchanted perspective of the world‚ instead of the blissfully ignorant perspective of the world as in previous cinematic movements. This can be seen in No Country for Old

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    new media do not‚ in themselves‚ guarantee interactivity. The limitations of the concept of interactivity becomes apparent the more it is empiricised or made exclusively reducible to one or other technical medium. This in turn underpins the historicism of second media age thinkers‚ for whom interactivity becomes synonymous with the ‘interactive society’. (Castells‚ Van Dijk) Interactivity has almost turned into a dull buzzword. The term is so inflated now that one begins to suspect that there

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    Losing Faith in the Objectivity of Science In his book‚ The Foundation of Scientific Revolutions‚ Kuhn challenged the prevailing belief of how science was conducted‚ and people in the Humanities found his book compelling‚ even disruptive. Why would people in the Humanities consider Kuhn’s theories on the nature of science‚ a different discipline‚ relevant to their work? Those in the Humanities believed that science was the standard for objective research and the discovery of truth. Consequently

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