Rather than 'art for art's sake', it appears that theatre is most effective when understood as an amalgamation of 'art' and 'life'. ... The struggle to find a compromise in the theatrical representations of anarchism is exemplified in Les Mauvais Bergers in 1897, wherein Mirbeau's depiction of a workers' revolution against capitalists led to a range of inaccurate critical responses, some saw it as "a poorly-conceived attack on parliamentary socialism"10 whilst for others it was "worthless dilettanism"11. ... The multi-dimensionality of Les Mauvais B...

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In its broadest sense, popular music is an umbrella term referring to a vast range of commercially mass-marketed musical genres contrasting with classical or art music and intended to appeal to the masses (e.g., rock, rock and roll, hip-hop, grunge, heavy metal, rhythm and blues, punk, soul, techno, funk, rap, house). ... Peterson and David Berger suggest that the period 1948 through 1973 is charac...

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Bret Easton Ellis's novel, Lunar Park, is a work of art that reveals the author's Oedipus complex. ... Freud stated that in self-defense of their Oedipus complex, children develop an influential conscience called the superego (Berger 272). ... (Berger 225). ...

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An ode the woman herself, Queen Victoria, and the subsequent characteristics of the Victorian period In an unpredictable, tumultuous era, the stern, staid figure of Queen Victoria came to represent stability and continuity. The adjective "Victorian" was first used in 1851 to celebrate the nation's mounting pride in its institutions and commercial success. That year, the global predominance of British industry had emerged incontestably at the original "world's fair" in London, the "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations," which Prince Albert helped organize. Arra...

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