Henri Bergson et les conservateurs espagnols (1907-1940)/II by Camille Lacau Saint-Guily

“…Faced with the intransigence of the Catholic néothomiste orthodoxy, is a Catholic modernist Bergsonism possible in Spain? The friendship of the two French, Jacques Chevalier and Maurice Legendre -great disciples of Bergson and whose liberal catholicism is inspired by Bergsonism- with Miguel de Unamuno and Juan Domínguez Berrueta, contributed to the emergence of a Spanish Bergsonian mysticism in the 1910s. …”
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David Goodis’s Noir Fiction: The American Dream’s Paralysis by Robert Lance Snyder

“…His pulp novels significantly extend late-modernist themes of fragmentation, entropy, and despair.…”
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Développement et palmier à huile : les enjeux de la gestion des territoires coutumiers ibans du Sarawak, Malaysia by Jean-François Bissonnette

“…The study allows comparing and confronting the semi-traditional iban organizational system of resource management to the modernist project put forward by the state. The observations realised allow addressing the notion of development from a critical perspective in the complex social and institutional context of Sarawak. …”
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Dini ve Manevi Eğitimin Öyküsel Pedagojisi by Clive Erricker

“…Öyküsel pedagojiler yapısalcı ve postmodern teorilere dayandığı için, eğitimin özünde modernist müfredat modelleriyle gerilim içindedir. …”
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A Geography of Cultures: Or, Why New York’s Lower East Side Is an Important Case Study by Mario MAFFI

“…—all of them finally converging, in the 1920s, in the larger Modernist movement. The essay traces these developments, against the background of the economic and social transformations of the city, of the rhythms and manners of associate life and of the patterns of production of popular and mass culture.…”
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Identity Struggles of Museum Professionals: Autonomous Expertise and Audience Participation in Exhibition Production by Taavi Tatsi

“…The established identity of a museum professional is that of a traditional modernist cultural expert, deploying hegemonic power stemming from institutionalised legitimate knowledge. …”
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Reception of Penelope’s Character in 20th Century Poetry: Female Modernism and Latvian Writer Aspazija by Dina Eiduka

“…It specifically examines the utilisation of Penelope in the poetry of modernist poets, particularly those associated with the category of Female Modernism (as proposed by Jane Dowson in her work “Women, Modernism and British Poetry, 1910–1939: Resisting Femininity” (2002)), with a particular focus on the works of the Latvian author Aspazija. …”
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What happens when one picks up the Greek text? by J. G. van der Watt

“…It is argued that the chosen philosophical framework (for instance, a modernist or postmodern approach) determines the way in which any process of translation is approached. …”
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THE APPROACHES TO REALITY IN VŨ TRỌNG PHỤNG’S WORKS FROM MODERNISM VIEWPOINT by Kiều Thanh Uyên

“…Vũ Trọng Phụng is one of the earliest modernist writers in Vietnamese literature. This shows his receptiveness to modern trends as well as his attempts to update Vietnamese literature to catch up with trends in world literature in the first half of the twentieth century. …”
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Our Interplanetary Bodies by Marie Siguier

“…While the sublime Burkean modernist was an illusionist and attempted to distance the observer from a terrifying nature to have him feel terror, elevation or rapture, the installation encompasses the individual and sends him back to his own physical and cognitive experience, as well as to an renewed experience of space and senses through immersion in a “cosmos programme” that nevertheless produces a feeling of elevation faced with what Lyotard called “the unpresentable”: the absolutely great, the absolutely powerful.…”
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Modernism and Muddle: Religious Implications of T. S. Eliot’s Use of the Term by Anna BUDZIAK

“…It also tries to demonstrate that, at the time, Eliot used the word modernism, meaning not only modernism in literature but also (predominantly, perhaps) modernist theology.…”
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Writing Out of Place: Wordsworth and Woolf in London by Laurent Folliot, Juliana Lopoukhine

“…Although Wordsworth’s country rambles have often been associated with the kind of patriarchal culture epitomised by Woolf’s father Leslie Stephen (who even penned an essay entitled “In Praise of Walking”), the London perambulations recounted in Book VII of The Prelude present suggestive analogies, as well as contrasts, with Woolf’s Modernist city heuristics. Both were, in a sense, outsiders to the metropolitan space they negotiated in writing, and both were keenly aware of living through a moment of historical crisis and opportunity. …”
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“A / music / at rest”: Late Duncan and Objectivist Poetics by Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas

“…Throughout Robert Duncan’s poetic life, Louis Zukofsky represented an important challenge, an admired mentor who in so many respects espoused modernist principles directly opposed to Duncan’s own self-proclaimed “romantic” propensities. …”
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The Wagnerschule (Vienna 1894-1912): Wagner and the Moderne Architekture by Ettore Sessa

“…Otto Wagner, between 1894 and 1912, carries out a vertical reform of that principle of the reorganization of the visible which is one of the cornerstones of the Art Nouveau aesthetic revolution. Unlike other Modernist protagonists, the core of pupils of his school (including Hoffmann, Plečnik, Deininger, Schönthal, Hoppe, Fuchs), as well as his assistants (among whom J. …”
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Is fides quaerens intellectum a scholarly enterprise? Some thoughts on confessional theology at a public university by Gerrit Brand

“…Such a case can even be made within the narrow confines of a modernist understanding of what constitutes true academic scholarship, given the centrality of the notion of intersubjectivity within such an understanding. …”
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Modern Art, National Culture, and Hispanophilia in Revista de Avance by Iliana Cepero

“…In its pages, the magazine privileged Spanish civilization and conflated it with both European modernist culture and Cuban art and literature. At the same time, Revista de Avance voiced the ideas of the Institución Hispano-Cubana de Cultura, led by Fernando Ortiz.…”
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The Interface Between the Written and the Oral in lfa Corpus by Omotade Adegbindin

“… While the modernists in the field of African philosophy embrace writing as a precondition for philosophy and forcefully maintain the need to cast philoso­phy in the image of science, the traditionalists insist that African philosophy is essentially a philosophical reflection on African oral traditions, morals, and re­ligious practices. …”
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The critique of Gikuyu religion and culture in S.N. Ngubiah's A Curse from God by F. Hale

“…This clash between a traditionalist and a modernist exemplifies the larger predicament facing African societies as they undergo rapid religio-cultural transformation. …”
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The Architect, the Planner and the Bishop: the Shapers of ‘Ordinary’ Dublin, 1940–60 by Ellen Rowley

“…Vast structures of ecclesiastic authority, Catholic (determinedly revivalist) church building and the suite of Catholic (tentatively modernist) schools were presented as support structures for mass housing, thereby completing the image and experience of Dublin’s new mid-twentieth-century suburbs. …”
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Un théâtre astral et « révolutionnaire » : les visions « fanta-scientifiques » de Paul Scheerbart by Cristina Grazioli

“…Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) is a well-known author in studies on the origins of science fiction in Germany and is often quoted for his contribution to the aesthetics of modernist architecture. Yet he was rarely studied for his theatrical conceptions and writings; his theatrical work was never considered enough, nor under the prism of the anticipations of SF theatre. …”
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