“Design nature”: A color interpretation of Bauhaus school building in Dessau and its conceptual origins by Yuan Meng, Wei Liu

“…In modernist architecture, color serves as a crucial tool in shaping spatial experiences. …”
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Mihail Sebastian și poetica romanului proustian by Paul Dugneanu

“…Playwright and modernist novelist, Mihail Sebastian was also an outstanding literary critic, proving, in the same time, remarkable theoretical skills. …”
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Modern Girls in the Midwestern City: Kay Boyle’s Process and Meridel Le Sueur’s The Girl by Beth WIDMAIER CAPO

“…Paul (Minnesota) and Cincinnati (Ohio) respectively in these stylistically Modernist coming-of-age narratives.…”
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“The time has come for a new word”: Katherine Mansfield’s Literary Ethics by Alice BORREGO

“…Dwelling on what Stephen Ross calls a modernist “ethical impulse to improve upon the status quo”, this article aims at showing how the war progressively led Mansfield to draw a modernist manifesto that advocated a “new word”.…”
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Religious Discourse and the Public Sphere in Contemporary Pakistan by Muhammad Qasim Zaman

“…Focusing on extensive debates in Pakistan on whether the Qur’an’s prohibition of usury (riba) also covers modern forms of financial interest, the article analyses facets and consequences of the “incommensurability” between the `ulama’s styles of discourse and those of their modernist critics. Efforts to remedy this incommensurability have had mixed results, shedding considerable light as much on how the `ulama have continued to defend their authority in the public sphere as on how their modernist challengers have fared in Pakistan.…”
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Cosmopolitanism of Langsa Society during Colonial Era by Sumiyati Sumiyati, Singgih Tri Sulistiyono, Yety Rochwulaningsih, Ichwan Azhari

“…As a cosmopolitan city, Langsa has also become a meeting place for modernist thoughts. One example is the acceptance of Muhammadiyah as a modernist Islamic organization.…”
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Men of Letters: W.B. Yeats’s A Packet for Ezra Pound (1929) by Adrian PATERSON

“…Considering it formally alongside Yeats’s letters as a bookish yet speech-driven manifesto, this paper argues that what appears as a provisional, peripheral, prefatorial work is nonetheless central to understanding Yeats and Pound’s evolving thinking, and critical to an understanding of modernist networks. Its genre-bending, pan-artistic vision, intertextuality, and playing with paratextual apparatus produces a self-conscious construction typical of modernism, even as it claims distance from modernist aesthetics and dissents from its politics.…”
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L’artificieuse alternative de Ford Madox Ford dans The Good Soldier by Catherine Pesso-Miquel

“…The Good Soldier is not a modernist tale protesting that it is only a metafictional discourse, it is a flat, brilliant metafictional surface creating the illusion that this “saddest story” does have a depth.…”
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Arlington Park: Variations on Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway by Monica LATHAM

“…I would like to observe Cusk’s narrative, stylistic and thematic features, which seem to situate her novel at the confluence of two traditions: firstly, her writing stems from modernism and prolongs modernist techniques, more particularly the Woolfian legacy; Cusk can thus be said to be a neo-modernist writer.2 Secondly, her work belongs to the current “literary fiction” genre: it is an elitist, lyrical, “writerly” type of fiction born with modernist aesthetics.…”
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Sergei Eisenstein’s System Thinking: Influences and Inspirations by Bulgakowa Oksana

“…Eisenstein rejected linear logic and sought forms for a hypertext that in his eyes were closer to associative, spherical and labyrinthine thought structures that to date have found expression only in modernist art experiments.…”
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Line Breaths in Allen Ginsberg’s Poetry by Anna Aublet

“…Ginsberg’s long verse thus comes to index a break in his modernist lineage. It operates a departure from his modernist masters, Williams, Pound and Eliot. …”
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“Dante… Bruno. Vico.. Joyce:” Samuel Beckett’s “identified contraries” by Julie BÉNARD

“…This propels him to the heart of three modernist principles: “historical modernism”, “hieroglyphic modernism” and “alchemical modernism.” …”
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Felix Aderca – scriitorul sub vremuri by Mihaela Iancu

“…Aderca also wrote thousands and thousands of pages of prose, poetry, drama and essays, he supported and popularized in his articles the modernist literary trends coming from the Western cultures and was a notable member of the modernist Romanian literary cenacle, Sburătorul. …”
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The Ambiguities of an Ambiguity-Reading: A Critical Reading of The Function of Ambiguity in the Process of Reading by Parsa Janbeh Saraie

“…Via her analysis of some modernist and postmodernist narratives, Sahba has argued that despite the theory of the death of the author, modernist and postmodernist uses of ambiguity show the centrality of the author. …”
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Chief Isaac Oluwole Delano: A Legend and His Legacy by Toyin Falola

“…The body of his work operated in a context of colonial-modernist state. The colonial power, in its imperialist/messianic philosophy and the quest to inscribe European ethos on other cultures, the colonized people of Nigeria, like others elsewhere, were told that the root to modernity was the European way of life. …”
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Reviving/Revising “Lycidas”: Virginia Woolf’s Elegy to Unborn Poets in A Room of One’s Own by Marie Laniel

“…The epitome of late Renaissance pastoral elegy, “Lycidas” haunts many a Modernist poem or novel, from The Waste Land to Ulysses, as a contested subtext, the expression of a poetics of grief that could no longer hold after the First World War, and yet whose grip on the Modernist imagination remained strong. …”
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How to be Modern: The Darantière Press and Anglo-American Writers in France by Fiona McMahon

“…The collaboration between Sylvia Beach, James Joyce, and the Dijon printer Maurice Darantière that resulted in the first printing of Ulysses in 1922 was commemorated in a 1988 study by the modernist scholar Jean-Michel Rabaté: Maurice Darantière, les années vingt: bibliographie d’imprimeur. …”
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A Comparative Analysis of Existentialism and Mysticism in Line with Jungian Individuation in Virginia Woolf’s and Iris Murdoch’s Selected Works by Aleyna Durmus

“…In an era identified as a rupture from the linearity of history, modernist writers sought to communicate and compensate for the loss of meaning that was immanent, attempting to address the multifaceted and intricate nature of the human condition. …”
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Eşcinsellikleriyle İlgili Değişim Talebiyle Psikolojik Danışmaya Başvuran Yetişkin Bireyler Üzerine Fenomenolojik Bir Çalışma by Neslihan Aydın

“…Danışmanlıkta takip edilen kuramlar modernist ve postmodernist olmak üzere iki grupta incelenir. …”
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Thomas Wolfe: Modo and the Potential for Renaissance by Amélie Moisy

“…In Thomas Clayton Wolfe (1900-1938) and his work, the Modernist tension between neophilia and neophobia was apparent and ultimately redirected into a restoration of vital force of writing. …”
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