Search results for "modernism"

Malika Maskarinec: The Forces of Form in German Modernism. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2018. 240 pp.

2021

Metanarrative of the "New Father" and Narratives of Young Finnish First-Time Fathers

2011

The metanarrative of the “new father” has become well-established in both the public and academic discourses on families. This study analyzes the narratives and storylines about fatherhood told by young Finnish first-time fathers, and examines the interrelationship between these narratives and the metanarrative of the “new father.” Three different narratives were identified—the modern, the transition and the postmodern narratives of fathering. Although constructed differently, all three narratives engaged with the metanarrative of the new father by reflecting on it and by drawing a distinction between their perceptions of fatherhood and the narratives of the past. In conclusion, the idea of…

Savant et populaire. Le post-modernisme (1977-2011) selon Charles Jencks

2015

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Evocaciones del Reino perdido. La antigua Casa de la Generalitat de Valencia como monumento

2021

Durante el siglo XIX se teje un relato historiográfico iniciado por intelectuales románticos y culminado por la Renaixença en el que se revaloriza el edificio de la Casa de la Generalitat de Valencia por su relación con las instituciones forales del Reino de Valencia, desaparecidas en 1707. Esta construcción historiográfica e ideológica culmina en su declaración jurídica como monumento en 1931 y en su restauración material en estilo, que se completa en 1952. Tras la abolición de los fueros albergó la Audiencia y la Diputación Provincial. Convertido en monumento, desde la promulgación del Estatuto de Autonomía en 1982 es sede del gobierno autónomo valenciano.

COVID-19, Terrorism, and Conspiracy Plot: Everyone Is Guilty Until Proven Innocent

2021

COVID-19 is reaffirming the tendency of nation-states to find imaginary enemies when hit with a crisis—enemies to whom its origins and perpetuation could be attributed. This is needed for their unity and survival. However, a strong and serious global pandemic like COVID-19 would need the identification of strong and serious enemies. This is a dangerous proposition if taken to anywhere beyond rhetoric. China is identified as the antagonist; yet, a real confrontation with China would cause more harm than what COVID-19 might cause. It is essential that we lead the world toward a new war, “against a virus”. This chapter reflects the problem of hospitality, as strongly associated with conspiracy…

The Artistic Commitment of Kenyon Cox: An American Neoclassical Artist

2016

At the end of the nineteenth century, the United States had undergone deep transformations. The second Industrial Revolution had created huge amounts of new wealth and power. This led to an alteration of the urban social fabric and to a repositioning of the country on the international scene.Since the 1870s, the American Renaissance had been a vehicle for the diffusion of new values and new concepts. As a broad neoclassical movement in the arts, it was committed to a rewriting of the country’s national past.At the time, Kenyon Cox (1856-1919) distinguished himself as one of the major artists of the movement, but also as one of its most influential critics and theorists. Cox developed theori…

Historia y lenguaje: la vuelta al relato dos décadas después

2019

This essay aims to give a critical account of the main arguments involved in the debate about the so called «linguistic turn» in History. Bringing into discussion the most recent historiographical production, we argue that there is space for, and an unrgent need of, thinking seriously about the relationship between 'language' an 'history' without, necessarily, collapsing our discipline into a mere narrative or a postmodern technique of «reading the signs». We want to challenge, therefore, rhe rigid dichotomy between a perception of language as a reflection of social reality and a perception of language as the ultimate creator of it.

Introduction: Impression(s)

2019

This is the introduction to the volume "Impression(s)". The articles presented in this cluster discuss literary and visual impressions from the premise that literary impressionism and printmaking share the trope of impression as “impress” and as “imprints” in a technical and epistemological sense. Most works on Impressionism and literary impressionism dwell on the genealogy and mutual influence of fiction and painting, but few authors tackle the importance of printmaking. The five essays presented here all examine impressions as theme, trope and technique in 19th and 20th-century texts and images. These essays discuss intermedial practices, the mutual influence of artistic practice and text…

Decoding the XXI Century’s Marketing Shift: An Agency Theory Framework

2016

Since the beginning of the XXI century, marketing theory has moved through a series of epistemological shifts from modern positivism to postmodern constructivism. This has resulted in a series of changes to the main concepts of “traditional” marketing such as: market, product, customer, and value. These shifts can be better viewed under a social cybernetics approach such as agency theory. This is because there is now a view that the linear concept of value creation needs to give way to the more complex process of value cocreation, where value is created collectively. Agency theory is one approach that is able to shed light on how customers and providers are able to recursively create collec…

Electronic poetry : understanding poetry in the digital environment

2011