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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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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Poets and Puppets: Interarts Collaboration in Alfred Kreymborg’s Lima Beans by Yasna Bozhkova

“…This article focuses on a little-explored case of modernist collaboration situated at the crossroads between different arts: the performance of Alfred Kreymborg’s play Lima Beans, produced by the Provincetown Players in December 1916, in which poets Mina Loy and William Carlos Williams played the two leading parts, together with poet and artist William Zorach, who also designed the sets. …”
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The Roaring Streets: Dickensian London in the Pages of Virginia Woolf by Francesca Orestano

“…This article focuses on Woolf’s portrayal of Victorian urban life in her fiction, especially in The Years (1937), where London sounds are everywhere present and deployed to create the polyphony—an exciting cacophony in modernist terms—of the great city. In Woolf’s fiction sounds are meant to convey symbolic meanings, to bring myth to the foreground, while also adding to the realism of the text. …”
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Villy Sørensen’s Hermeneutics of the Fall by Rasa Alė Petronytė

“… The article interprets Danish modernist writer Villy Sørensen’s short story “The Soldier’s Christmas Eve”, published in Harmless Tales in 1955, on the basis of Paul Ricœur’s hermeneutics of symbols, which is concerned with the problem of the constitution of consciousness. …”
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The "Other" Geographies in Latin America: Alternatives from the Landscapes of the Chatino People by Geronimo Barrera de la Torre

“…Our critical and theoretical analysis draws on this understanding of landscape and points to the need to rethink and decolonize modernist constructions and make way for new epistemic and ontological understandings of human and other-than-human relations. …”
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O romance português : 1974-2024 by Miguel Real

“…The novel in Portugal between 1974 and 2020 is divided into two phases: 1. 1974 and 2000: the Late Modernist or Neomodernist Novel, which socially and politically corresponds to Portugal's integration into Europe; 2. 2000-2020: the Post-Modern Novel, following the literary rhythm of Europe, corresponding to the phase of Late Capitalism. …”
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Devenir électeur en Tunisie. Sociologie du vote bourgeois dans un quartier résidentiel (élections à l’Assemblée nationale constituante du 23 octobre 2011) by Jérôme Heurtaux

“…Finally, and with respect to the population’s presumed political homogeneity and motivation for participation, a significant proportion of voters chose candidates from the Islamist party while demonstrating substantial dispersal of choice among «modernist» parties and candidates.…”
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Digitally-Driven Architecture by Henriette Bier, Terry Knight

“…This implies that, similar to the way that industrial design and fabrication with its concepts of standardisation and serial production influenced modernist architecture, digital design and fabrication influences contemporary architecture. …”
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Vienna’s Resistance to the “Neoliberal Turn" by Florian Urban

“…This was based on original design inspired by a variety of mostly modernist precedents. Examples for new residences that follow this strategy include the Car-free Model Estate (1996–99, Cornelia Schindler and Rudolf Szedenik), the women-led scheme Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky-Hof (1993–97, Liselotte Peretti, Gisela Podreka, Elsa Prochazka and Franziska Ullmann), and the residences on the former railway station Nordbahnhof (1992–2015, master plan by Boris Podrecca and Heinz Tesar, buildings by various architects). …”
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Modern Collective Transport. The Impact of Public Policy on the Implementation of the EU Legislative Objectives on the Example of Poland by Stefan Akira Jarecki

“…In the 20th century, it was mainly based on modernist views and the most important element of the transport planning policy at that time was the use of the private motor vehicle (car). …”
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