Modernism in Literature Introduction The horrors of World War I (1914-19)‚ with its accompanying atrocities and senselessness became the catalyst for the Modernist movement in literature. Modernist authors felt betrayed by the war‚ believing that the institutions in which they were taught had led the civilized world into bloody conflict. They no longer turned to these institutions as a reliable means to decipher the meaning of life but instead sought for the answers within themselves. Thus‚ the
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possible. These are the terms you should study for the final exam: Archie Bunker “Daily Me” bystander/aggressor effect history fabrication effect commodity capitalism syntagmatic/paradigmatic axis intertextuality Part II: Short Answer (4 x 10% = 40%) You will answer four short questions that you will choose from a list of five. When answering the four questions‚ be sure to use complete sentences and support your answer with examples wherever
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Ideology is a “set of beliefs” based on the environment. In the movie‚ Wall-E‚ there is an idea given to the audience of the future polluted world where robots have to stay on Earth and clean up the mess. Whereas‚ on the other hand‚ the people get to live in space in a better environment. This shows a very selfish ideology from the people towards the robot‚ Wall-E and others who stayed on earth since the people left Wall-E alone (the people left their responsibility to Wall-E) in a messy world that
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Understanding the two texts “My fair Lady” and “Pretty Woman” have greatly developed and reshaped the indepth comparison of the both studied texts. Texts reflect the concerns of in time in which they are written. The fantastic team work of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederic Lowe made My Fair Lady‚ an outstanding success in 1962. The story revolves around Eliza Doolittle‚ an unmannered cockney flower girl from Covent Garden‚ who agrees to take speech lessons from phonetician Henry Higgins in order
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A Study on Metafictive Devices in The French Lieutenant’s Woman Abstract The French Lieutenant’s Woman is a splendid literary work written by English novelist John Fowles. It was published in 1969 and received universally acknowledged reputation as a masterpiece of postmodern novel. With intricate plot‚ the novel is regarded as a compelling historiographic metafiction in contemporary British literature. The characteristics of this novel are the metafictive devices employed by the author
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This is achieved by emphasizing the key ideas of flexivity‚ irony and parody. Here‚ flexivity can be described as the nortion of making the viewer aware that they are looking at something that is deconstructed which can take the form of irony‚ intertextuality or even parody. He gives examples of how post modernism has been used in real life with a close example referring to Kenneth Cole advert in the year 1992 which was used to create awareness of various social
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Consumerism plays an integral part in fight club because the narrator at the beginning of the movie because in the beginning the narrator bought tons of furniture and material goods to fill the void of not being able to sleep because he had insomnia. That was working until he lost his suitcase full of all he owned and his apartment was burned down and all of his possessions were gone and he didn’t know how to go on without material goods‚ which was his entire life in his mind his identity. It was
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Chapter 1: a quester‚ a place to go‚ the stated reason to go there‚ challenges and trials in route‚ reason to go there. Its all about motivation‚ and the reason for going on a journey isn’t what it was really about. Chapter 2: When you share a meal with others it kind of bonds you‚ it means yall have something in common and thats why yall are with each other. You learn more about the people you share that meal with and some of the best moments can happen over a meal. The breakfast club came to
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Tuesday 24th September 2013 5010GD ‘Isms’ as ways of seeing / thinking / reading 1. ‘isms’ is a shorthand for the seemingly complex array of ideas and theories that surround art and design as a socially and culturally located practice. With many of these ideas it is difficult to find a starting point‚ and a lot of these terms have superseded one another or are in conflict in some way. There is no real chronology of these ideas‚ in fact‚ a linear approach to these ideas is probably misleading.
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The author states that the book interprets a powerful affirmation of the insistence of Dei Verbum that God speaks in sacred scripture through men in human fashion. He mentions that the book is not a pure apocalypse and it seems to create an intertextuality which opens text to multiple interpretations. He relates that the book is a significant
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