... a renewed sense of patriotism and confidence in their nation. Schivelbusch uses the example of neoclassical monumentalism to underscore how the same stylistic, formal, and technological developments are used to serve ostensibly different political systems. This can be equated with the manner in which ... New Deal, National Socialism, and The Great Depression, did not imprison people for their political beliefs and widened the influence of underprivileged elements in society. He also notes that the historical experience (especially after Word War I and the Treaty of Versailles), culture, a...

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... he had lived in six towns in four different states as his father tried to find a better place and job help to raise his family. Frank, during the summer while he was a teenager, had to get a summer job every summer to help with the family. His parents eventually divorced, and Frank Lloyd Wright was forced to drop out of high school and ... said this about Fallingwater: "Fallingwater is a great blessing - one of the great blessings to be experienced here on earth. I think nothing 14 yet ever equaled the coordination, sympathetic expression of the great principle of repose where forest an...

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... psychology, anthropology, history and aesthetics to master some of the literature of the early years of Modernism: T.S. Eliot even furnished footnotes to help the reader with his The Waste Land. But all through what might be termed the period of Modernism there were writers who kept working away ... colloquialisms. The major poet of the First World War, Wilfred Owen, began writing poetry in the manner of Keats, but his poetry underwent stylistic changes as he toughened and tightened his language under the pressure of traumatic, front-line experience of war. One of his most bitterly ironi...

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... " a "direct contradiction" of the claims of "poststructuralist" theories reducing the world to language. "Ecocriticism responds," Newman argues, "by insisting on the independent reality of the nonlinguistic material world." However, in order to locate "the nonlinguistic material world" in Thoreau's writing, Newman draws upon ... metaphor will hold, and it will give the imagination keen pleasure." (18) In "Poetry and Imagination," the aging Emerson (with editorial help from his literary executor James Elliot Cabot) seems merely to have mined the same argument he made for the emblematic nat...

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... well as arrangements offer a broad range of material for investigation. As the analysis will focus on the definition of stories of initiation and the appliance of these criteria on Hemingway′s short fiction, other aspects of interpretation (e.g. the often mentioned autobiographical content or stylistic devices which are characteristic for Hemingway′s iceberg-principle) have to be neglected. They should ... to the initiation-theme in literature Here, some attempts to define and categorize stories of initiation regarding typical elements will be shortly presented. 2.2.1 Views on the cha...

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