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    mdernism and Virginia Woolf

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    we are but a multitude of selves that interact and sometimes conflict. Weeb observes that Woolf ‘recognized that she occasionally contradicted herself‚ and she consciously gave this tendency to characters in her novels’ (6). As one of the major modernist writers in prose‚ she developed writing techniques such as the interior monologue and the stream of consciousness; techniques that helped her to express this multiplicity in her characters. And show their inner thought and states. The particular

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    E. E. Cummings: Modernist Painter and Poet Author(s): Milton A. Cohen Source: Smithsonian Studies in American Art‚ Vol. 4‚ No. 2 (Spring‚ 1990)‚ pp. 54-74 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Smithsonian American Art Museum Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3108985 . Accessed: 05/04/2011 17:57 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR’s

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    larger houses to the original simple dream. Rosicky is a very family oriented man‚ and feels himself to be of no use unless he is working. Cather writes about Rosicky as a sort of emblem for the human race which is becoming lazy and degenerated. Modernist writers see that people have changed their "American Dreams" to be about greed‚ and their lives are not simple‚ people are becoming more corrupt‚ as a whole‚ and not fixating on the important‚ simple things in life. Rosicky is about the simpler things

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    landscape objection. According to Quine‚ accepting an ontology that includes unactualized possibles “offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes” (23). This objection is nothing more than an aesthetic objection to Wyman’s ontology. According to Quine‚ any ontology that contains unactualized possibles should not be accepted because it offends Ockham’s razor in that it does not propose the simplest answer. Therefore‚ an ontology that includes unactualized possibles requires too

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    The Modernist movement was more than just an architectural style‚ it represents wider social changes which influenced the designers of the time and remains an ephemeral historical snapshot of what is modern. Roy Grounds was a pioneer within Australian Modern architecture‚ and worked with the changes of the world to urban environments and construction to create progressive designs and does this while still maintaining the same geometric language across a wide scale of work. Often using residential

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    (2003). “Background to Framenet”. Fillmore‚ C. J.‚ Petruck‚ M.‚ Ruppenhofer‚ J. and Wright‚ A. (2003). “Framenet in action: the case of attaching” Gaudin‚ F. (2003). Gillam‚ L.‚ Tariq‚ M. and Ahmad‚ k. (2006). “Terminology and the construction of ontology”. International DOI Foundation (2005). The DOI Handbook‚ Version 4.2.0‚. Oxford: International Meyer‚ I.‚ Eck‚ K. and Skuce‚ D. (1997). “Systematic concept analysis within a knowledge-based approach to terminology” 22 Current Issues in Language Studies

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    Themes of Modernism

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    outlook on life‚ but the new era of Modernism rejected this idea and chose to portray life to be extremely pessimistic. Many of the Modern writers showed the world and society to be in an extreme disarray and despair. Some of the most influential Modernist writers even tried some radical experiments with form‚ such as free verse and some of them even presented some new ideas to the public‚ such as stream of consciousness. There are many things that these writers did to change the world of literature

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    out of stolen texts.’ (Maud Ellmann) How does Eliot use intertextuality to ask questions about identity‚ authenticity and authority The question of Identity‚ authenticity and authority transcend throughout T. S. Eliot’s poetry. A master of modernist poetry‚ Eliot manages to highlight the dramatic changes of culture and society in the early 20th century through employing crippling imagery and an astounding catalogue of intertextual links‚ questioning the capability of the literature of the modern

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    Theorist of Modern Novel

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    THEORISTS OF THE MODERNIST NOVEL In the early twentieth century the modernist novel exploded literary conventions and expectations‚ challenging representations of reality‚ consciousness and identity.These novels were not simply creative masterpieces but also crucial articulations of revolutionary developments in critical thought. In this volume Deborah Parsons traces the developing modernist aesthetic in the thought and writings of James Joyce‚ Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf. Considering

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    <http://forums.philosophyforums.com/threads/what-is-the-essence-of-being-human-31779.html>. "Epistemology - Credo Reference Topic." Credo Reference Home. Web. 17 Jan. 2012. <http://www.credoreference.com/topic/epistemology>. "What Is an Ontology?" Stanford Knowledge Systems‚ AI Laboratory. Web. 17 Jan. 2012. <http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/kst/what-is-an-ontology.html>.

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