Tag: Modernity

Free Download Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetics of Theater (Hopkins Studies in Modernism) by Joseph Cermatori
English | November 16, 2021 | ISBN: 1421441527, 1421441535 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 2.6 MB
A groundbreaking study on the vital role of baroque theater in shaping modernist philosophy, literature, and performance.

Free Download Robert Bickel, "Peter Berger on Modernization and Modernity: An Unvarnished Overview "
English | ISBN: 0367208164 | 2019 | 202 pages | EPUB | 560 KB
With particular attention to his work on modernization and modernity as construed by a sociologist of knowledge, this book offers a sympathetic exposition and evaluation of Peter Berger’s work as one of the world’s most accomplished and influential sociologists.

Free Download Kenneth J. Bindas, "Modernity and the Great Depression: The Transformation of American Society, 1930-1941 "
English | ISBN: 0700624007 | 2017 | 280 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Order, planning, and reason-in the depths of the Great Depression, with the nation teetering on the brink of collapse, this was what was needed. And this, Kenneth J. Bindas suggests, was what the ideas and ideals of modernity offered-a way to make sense of the chaos all around. In Modernity and the Great Depression, Bindas offers a new perspective on the provenance and power of modernist thought and practice in early twentieth-century America.

Free Download Algorithmic Modernity
by Ames, Morgan G.;Mazzotti, Massimo;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 019750244X | 312 pages | True EPUB | 11.23 MB

Free Download Tania Zulli, "Migration, Modernity and Transnationalism in the Work of Joseph Conrad"
English | ISBN: 1350255521 | 2023 | 256 pages | PDF | 14 MB
Examining the notion of migration and transnationalism within the life and work of Joseph Conrad, this book situates the multicultural and transnational characters that comprise his fiction while locating Conrad as a subject of the Russian state whose provenance is Polish, but whose identity is that of a merchant sailor and English country gentleman. Conrad’s characters are often marked by crossings – changes of nation, changes of culture, changes of identity – which refract Conrad’s own cultural transitions. These crossings not only subjectivise the experience of the migrant through the modern complexities of technology and speed, but also through cross-cultural encounters of food and language.

Free Download English in Singapore: Modernity and Management (Asian Englishes Today) By Lisa Lim (editor), Anne Pakir (editor), Lionel Wee (editor)
2010 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 9888028421 | PDF | 2 MB
English in Singapore provides an up-to-date, detailed and comprehensive investigation into the various issues surrounding the sociolinguistics of English in Singapore. Rather than attempting to cover the usual topics in an overview of a variety of English in a particular country, the essays in this volume are important for identifying some of the most significant issues pertaining to the state and status of English in Singapore in modern times, and for doing so in a treatment that involves a critical evaluation of work in the field and new and thought-provoking angles for reviewing such issues in the context of Singapore in the twenty-first century. The contributions address the historical trajectory of English (past, present and possible future), its position in relation to language policy and multiculturalism, the relationship between the standard and colloquial varieties, and how English can and should be taught. This book is thus essential reading for scholars and students concerned with how the dynamics of the English language are played out and managed in a modern society such as Singapore. It will also interest readers who have a more general interest in Asian studies, the sociology of language, and World Englishes.

Free Download Helen Groth, "Dreams and Modernity: A Cultural History"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0415606950 | PDF | pages: 209 | 2.6 mb
Dreams and Modernity: A Cultural History explores the dream as a distinctively modern object of inquiry and as a fundamental aspect of identity and culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Free Download Weird Tales of Modernity: The Ephemerality of the Ordinary in the Stories of Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith and H.P. Lovecraft By Jason Ray Carney
2019 | 205 Pages | ISBN: 1476668035 | PDF | 2 MB
Serious literary artists such as T.S. Eliot, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf loom large in most accounts of the literary art of the first half of the 20th century. And yet, working in the shadows cast by these modernists were science fiction, horror and fantasy writers like the "Weird Tales Three": H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E. Howard. They did not publish in artistically ambitious magazines like Dial, The Smart Set and The Little Review but instead in commercial pulp magazines like Weird Tales. Contrary to the stereotypes about pulp fiction and those who wrote it, these three were serious literary artists who used their fiction to speculate about such philosophical questions as the function of art and the brevity of life.

The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences by Jason A. Josephson-Storm
English | May 18, 2017 | ISBN: 022640322X, 022640336X | True EPUB | 400 pages | 12 MB
A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural history goes, this narrative is wrong, as attempts to suppress magic have failed more often than they have succeeded. Even the human sciences have been more enchanted than is commonly supposed. But that raises the question: How did a magical, spiritualist, mesmerized Europe ever convince itself that it was disenchanted?

Rafael Cardoso, "Modernity in Black and White: Art and Image, Race and Identity in Brazil, 1890-1945 "
English | ISBN: 1108481906 | 2021 | 282 pages | PDF | 18 MB
Modernity in Black and White provides a groundbreaking account of modern art and modernism in Brazil. Departing from previous accounts, mostly restricted to the elite arenas of literature, fine art and architecture, the book situates cultural debates within the wider currents of Brazilian life. From the rise of the first favelas, in the 1890s and 1900s, to the creation of samba and modern carnival, over the 1910s and 1920s, and tracking the expansion of mass media and graphic design, into the 1930s and 1940s, it foregrounds aspects of urban popular culture that have been systematically overlooked. Against this backdrop, Cardoso provides a radical re-reading of Antropofagia and other modernist currents, locating them within a broader field of cultural modernization. Combining extensive research with close readings of a range of visual cultural production, the volume brings to light a vast archive of art and images, all but unknown outside Brazil.