Paradoxy of Modernism

Paradoxy of Modernism
Title Paradoxy of Modernism PDF eBook
Author Robert Scholes
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 311
Release 2008-10-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0300128843

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In this lively, personal book, Robert Scholes intervenes in ongoing discussions about modernism in the arts during the crucial half-century from 1895 to 1945. While critics of and apologists for modernism have defined modern art and literature in terms of binary oppositions—high/low, old/new, hard/soft, poetry/rhetoric—Scholes contends that these distinctions are in fact confused and misleading. Such oppositions are instances of “paradoxy”—an apparent clarity that covers real confusion. Closely examining specific literary texts, drawings, critical writings, and memoirs, Scholes seeks to complicate the neat polar oppositions attributed to modernism. He argues for the rehabilitation of works in the middle ground that have been trivialized in previous evaluations, and he fights orthodoxy with such paradoxes as “durable fluff,” “formulaic creativity,” and “iridescent mediocrity.” The book reconsiders major figures like James Joyce while underscoring the value of minor figures and addressing new attention to others rarely studied. It includes twenty-two illustrations of the artworks discussed. Filled with the observations of a personable and witty guide, this is a book that opens up for a reader’s delight the rich cultural terrain of modernism.

Paradoxy

Paradoxy
Title Paradoxy PDF eBook
Author Richard Rothschild
Publisher
Pages 292
Release 1930
Genre Philosophy, Modern
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Paradoxy

Paradoxy
Title Paradoxy PDF eBook
Author Ken Howard
Publisher Paraclete Press (MA)
Pages 206
Release 2010
Genre Religion
ISBN 9781557257758

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As Western Christianity moves toward a religious realignment of epic proportions that debates definitions of conservative and liberal, Howard shares his thoughts on identifying where a congregation stands and how changes will be navigated.

Adventures in Paradox

Adventures in Paradox
Title Adventures in Paradox PDF eBook
Author Charles D. Presberg
Publisher Penn State Press
Pages 265
Release 2010-11-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0271045965

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Heinz Von Foerster 1911-2002

Heinz Von Foerster 1911-2002
Title Heinz Von Foerster 1911-2002 PDF eBook
Author Soren Brier
Publisher Imprint Academic
Pages 212
Release 2004
Genre Computers
ISBN 9780907845911

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Dedicated to the life and work of Heinz Von Foerster, this is a double issue of the journal "Cybernetics and Human Knowing".

Shakespeare's Living Art

Shakespeare's Living Art
Title Shakespeare's Living Art PDF eBook
Author Rosalie Littell Colie
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 382
Release 2015-03-08
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1400867878

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In this, her last book, Rosalie L. Colie suggests that by linking "forms"—verse forms, devices, motives, themes, conventions, genres—to the culture from which a writer springs and to his selection and organization of materials, we can understand the processes by which he becomes what he is, and is enabled to do what he does. She is particularly concerned with uncovering the ways in which Shakespeare used, misused, criticized, re-created, and sometimes revolutionized the received topics and devices of his craft. In this sense, Shakespeare's plays are seen as problem plays, each exploring the problematics of his craft and revealing his assessment of what was problematical. The author has chosen for study topics which connect Shakespeare with the long and rich continental Renaissance, in the hope that in the future Shakespeare might be, like Dante and Cervantes, an essential author in a comparatist's education. Usually a single topic dealing with some formal aspect of a play—the use of stereotypes to create a character highly original in stage practice, or the various manipulations of a mode (the pastoral, for example) rich in potentialities—is used to try to see in what particular ways Shakespeare shaped works that are still unique. Originally published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Design Entrepreneur

The Design Entrepreneur
Title The Design Entrepreneur PDF eBook
Author Steven Heller
Publisher
Pages 242
Release 2008
Genre Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN 1616736496

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Designers are used to working for clients, but there is nothing better than when the client is oneself. Graphic and product designers, who are skilled with the tools and masters aesthetics, are now in the forefront of this growing entrepreneur movement. Whether personal or collective, drive is the common denominator of all entrepreneurial pursuit; of course, then comes the brilliant idea; and finally the fervent wherewithal to make and market the result. The Design Entrepreneur is the first book to survey this new field and showcase the innovators who are creating everything from books to furniture, clothes to magazines, plates to surfboards, and more. Through case studies with designers like Dave Eggers, Maira Kalman, Charles Spencer Anderson, Seymour Chwast, Jet Mous, Nicholas Callaway, Jordi Duró, and over thirty more from the United States and Europe, this book explores the whys, hows, and wherefores of the conception and production processes. The design entrepreneur must take the leap away from the safety of the traditional designer role into the precarious territory where the public decides what works and what doesn't. This is the book that shows how that is accomplished.