词汇 | example_english_modernism |
释义 | Examples of modernismThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. No one seems interested in denying the sway of the market even over modernism's littlest magazines and most avant-garde authors. His definition of modernism is flexible and, in effect, plural, since he describes it as progressing through four separate stages. Ironically, the inception of modernism - the very moment where man (or woman) invented himself (herself) - simultaneously launched new and more subtle "enlightened" mechanisms of control. By re-establishing these discursive frames it becomes possible to theorize the grounds for a poetic modernism which is both socially engaged and radically reflexive. Designated in the language of business "modernism" as backward, localist, and inefficient, batch firms in time came to resemble that definition. Secondly, it allows us to explore the very particular ways in which modernism was deployed to do just that. From this principle identification, modernism mobilises the idea of unity and totality, deliberating the qualities and characteristics of the total artwork. He reveals something of the pathos of the religiously committed intellectual, caught in the current of modernism. Through this new literature - although it was molded in juristic vocabulary - it became possible to hinder the cause of modernism in the country. Inevitably too we end up with post-modernism as the defining description of our own time. In this respect, his view parallels the primitivists' scorn for earlier forms of modernism. In other words, fiscal modernism was very much part of the precolonial cultural world. Modernism is characterised by deeply held ethnocentric assumptions. The influence of post-modernism has brought an interest in flux, indeterminacy and constant motion. Such hybridity in the affairs of humankind might well gladden the heart of a historian in the grip of post-modernism. By contrast, modernism was subversive, contra, critical and oppositional. Each of these essays traces how the certainties of modernism gave way to the plurality and uncertainties of post-modernism. Twentieth-century modernism was a late arrival, in visual art and in literature. There was no room in his production for the nuance of postwar modernism. Now we await the rest of the story: the period from the authoritarian modernism of the 1950s to the troublesome years of the infitah. First, it proposes new terms for considering the relationship between modernism and postmodernism. Where she flounders is in her repeated and forced attempts to integrate her analysis into an over-arching critique of modernism. The objet petit a and its associated register of jouissance could be seen as historically mobilizing forces common to both popular music and high modernism. Did it lead to an affirmation of national styles or did the international language of modernism prevail? The attempt to reduce modernism to a small set of aesthetic principles has been continued elsewhere. By this time modernism itself was in an advanced state of decay, while confidence in the early demise of whiggism was no longer assured. Modernism entails the affirmation of values, ideas and material things judged to be modern, and the rejection of outdated and outmoded beliefs and practices. The suspicion remains that the poetic history of this period is being seen as simply coextensive with the history of modernism. His subject is what he calls ' ' ethnic modernism. 1995, 84) [post-processualism shares with post-modernism] a philosophic framework that refuses to establish criteria by which to evaluate competing knowledge claims [and] is unacceptable. In the discourse of this critical modernism, labour rights and civic rights were interrelated and constituted the fundamental building blocks of sustainable urban renewal. There has been a lot of talk in the last twenty years about deconstructing the social sciences; post-modernism even made a specialty of it. The real issue here is not modernism itself but outrage against the counter-cultural papal authority which condemned it. The ' universal perspective of modernism' seems still securely in place here. In other words, post-modernism in dance is often presented as a variation on the naturalist theme, only steeped in identity politics. Today's modernism is ironically a disavowal of modernity, and all its pretensions to provide a comprehensive and unitary ideal of human reasoning. Patronage of the arts was most often dependent upon individuals or private associations whose cultural enthusiasm did not generally embrace modernism and its products. Many linguists would have trouble distinguishing romanticism from realism, and modernism from postmodernism. Perhaps, he concludes, some of the problems of modernism are still alive and well. In so doing the book also offers a powerful commentary on modernism, anthropology and prospects for a post-modern conceptualisation of development. Moreover, and very amusingly, the reference is also used to prove the modernism of the author. The middle of the 'village', however, was dominated by a huge long block of flats which represented a mix of modernism and the ringhiera style. The future of modernism is unlikely to be a question of musical style alone - or even primarily. Realism attempts to reduce the amount of suspension necessary: modernism, famously, attempts a self-reflexivity, allowing readers to catch themselves in the process of suspension. With these ornamental additions, the building challenged architectural modernism's demand for stark functionalism and purely efficient design. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. All the chapters share a socio-cultural orientation and draw on theoretical approaches such as feminism, structuralism, post-structuralism and post-modernism. Postmodernism arose as a rejection of the machine metaphor and modernism as well. Modernism once had as its principal aim the amelioration of living standards for every member of society. Paratactic discourses familiar to students of modernism and post-modernism are brilliantly conjured from the preoccupations of eighteenth-century epistemology and political discourse. Hence, this position can also be termed modernism. To modify the question - how were doors and windows defined before modernism? Not all the contributors make a clear distinction between modernism (the twentieth-century aesthetic movement) and modernity (the condition of society). In jazz, modernism challenged an aesthetic establishment within the sensibilities of popular entertainment. Modernism was taken to stand for artifice, frigidity, intellectualism. Judging by almost 100 books noted here, the trend leads away from post-modernism. A recurring sub-theme is a polemic against experiential-expressivism's priority of experience over language (a priority he often attributes to modernism generally). I do not want to substitute this dialectic for our previous definitions of modernism. Otherwise, postmodernism would be as hegemonic and proscriptive as it accuses modernism of being. In other words modernism has allowed the possibility of science and has even encouraged its ascendancy. Modernism, with science as its model, does get things done. I regard this view as symptomatic of a somewhat simplistic understanding of modernism as well as of the relation between modernism and postmodernism. In her inspiring postscript, she uses her work on the origins of modernism to think about its demise. Few humanists, who have had at least a century of dealing with the positivism and scientism inherent in modernism, would argue with this sentiment. The most powerful ideological attacks on modernism were based not upon its functional shortcomings, but upon its alleged aesthetic deficiencies. We do not find the labels of modernism and postmodernism useful, at least in discussing neural organization. Concentrating on poetry and criticism from 1900 to mid-century, the fifth volume in the series considers the problems and possibilities of modernism. Similarly, he ignores entirely the vast new literature generated by post-modernism on the cultural effects of colonialism. A more melodious score hardly exists in the repertoire of modernism. A radical cross-cultural re-ection requires an understanding of modernism and its limitations in terms of catering for difference. The ideas that structure the logic of liberal modernism have changed little over the last century. The term e ' modernism ' was a later invention. Modernism competed with the neo-baroque; movement, machinery and modernity competed with stasis, form and control. As a distinctive feature of modernism, juxtaposition appears to capture and reflect the living experience of disjunctures and discontinuities. However, in the overall context of modernism, the postmodern excursion into an emotional involvement is ultimately redeemed through discourse. He found abstract art to be ugly and rejected modernism's idea that the work did not have to represent reality. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Both schools have aulas, symbolising modernism's concern for light, air, health and nature. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. His incidental scorn of rationalism does not necessarily put him out of the reach of modernism, as has been pointed out above. They remind us of some of the intellectual allure that came with second wave 'born modernism ' and add much to third wave interpretations. Negative reactions to modernism are better explained as a response conditioned by a literary discourse in which plebeian autodidacts as well as middle-class readers participated. As a consequence, her account of modernism is seriously flawed. He steered a path between conservatism and modernism, winning a wide audience for his works. Blasphemers thus become individuals striving for expressive subjectivity only to find this removed from them by forms of moral authority themselves experiencing the growing pains of modernism. Like modernism itself, the array of characters at the heart of the book defies easy classification ; tensions spill out and reveal the inner contradictions of the group. His profound awareness of postwar 'modernism' has encouraged him to adopt a percussive style, as both composer and interpreter, yet tonality has invariably played a major role in his compositions. The confident dismissal of both modernism and postmodernism thus masks a prolonged and often anxious dialectical engagement with these terms and the compositional tendencies they represent. Post-modernism's refusal to recognise structures and power relationships in society masks the real and tangible inequalities that exist. Postmodern localism is a symptom, a cluster of reaction formations against modernism's failure to totalize. Postmodernists believe that the world and its history cannot be assessed as a whole, or "totalized" as modernism's universal ideal of progress implies is possible. Since it had the doubtful honour of having been the first of the rearguard styles, it was modernism's longest surviving adversary, its traditional enemy. What differentiated national modernisms was where the disruptive force came from and what kind of identity was disrupted. The heterological structure of that cord is not only the limit of modernism's search for critical conditions, it is also the presupposition of postmodern critiques of modernist reduction. Although the material in the individual chapters is clearly presented and responsive to the latest research, the sections which offer critical perspectives on modernism's legacies sometimes include glib statements. In the move away from modernism, postmodernism has attempted to bridge the distinction between elitist and popular culture. The consciousness of modernism gives way to the semiotics of postmodernism. Modernism, by contrast is legitimized and valued through its association with the figure of the masculine artist. Modernism may have gone out of fashion, but its battle cry still rings true: less is more! The approach is in keeping with political post-modernism. By the postwar period, modernism had become part of art history. Modernism may well have been purged from public view, but to the determined specialist it was still covertly available. Modernism, by then, had been around for a long time, and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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