... ethnic communities. He concentrates on the psychological effects that continued, created and transforming symbols and rituals of nations and nation states have had on communities and how they allow for the continued importance of nationalism in their minds. In "Nations and Nationalism" Gellner attempts to answer the question of why nationalism is so pervasive in the modern world. He ... well as a "historical culture-community." Smith also describes modern nations as "legitimated through the universally applicable ideology of nationalism" whilst they are all part of a wider international s...

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... perspective reveal author's message in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind?' Multiple parts of narrative perspective are examined: how the narrative perspective is used to surprise the reader in different ways and how the irony, symbols, and emotions are used to help the narrator explain the characters and events throughout the story as well as understanding the psychopath himself. In order ... way, with writing the novel in omniscient third person narrative perspective, Suskind's only reason for writing the novel was the leave a rather large distance between the reader ...

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... at the Futurist serate, audiences experienced an audiovisual bombardment of plays, poetry and performance, however the key difference between the anarchist and futurist aesthetic was that the Futurists represented all these elements simultaneously on stage, altering the previously linear temporal and spatial aesthetic of anarchism. An indication of the scope and scale of Futurists' attempts at a completely intersubjective ... , writing in 1924 that 'the ideological origins of Fascism can be found in Futurism, in the determination to go down into the streets, to impose their own opinions, ...

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... and Julius Caesar, who was idolised by Italian Fascists.3 They viewed the modern state of Italy as the heir of the Roman Empire and accentuated the need for renovation of Italian culture to 'return to Roman values' because Italian Fascists identified the Roman Empire as an ideal organic and stable society in contrast with contemporary individualistic liberal societies, which they saw as ... Another similarity shown between Mussolini's and Hitler's ideologies was the use of architecture and statues to portray the strength and unity of their regimes. Hitler to a far lesser extent coul...

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