The period of independence movements also coincided with the introduction of the Modern Movement across the continent, which was associated with progress and a break from the colonial past.

This book tells the story of the origins of liberal world governance in Cambridge modernist circles, the literary response to the Versailles Peace of 1919, and the contestation of that institutional ...

Our Shadowed Present is a measured critique of some of the explicit and implicit assumptions of both 'modernism' and 'postmodernism' as they have infected historical writing, ironically at a time when ...

XIVModern Literature. The Year's Work in English Studies, Vol. 101, Issue. 1, p. 971. While literary modernism is often associated with Euro-American metropolises such as London, Paris or New York, ...

All Ventura is “guilty” of is the sin of using an old form of idealism in trendy America. Ventura’s opposition to racial bigotry takes the modern, as opposed to postmodern, form. And for that he, like ...

The rise of Modernist literature in the U.S. in relation to its discontents. Writers may include Eliot, Pound, W.C. Williams, Cather, Toomer, Stein, Hemingway ...

Modernist art and literature offered to re-examine one’s existence, and search for new ways of inspiration and expression. Abstract art, seemingly nonsensical expressions, and fluid forms with ...

PLAINVIEW— Christianity has entered the era of ‘Postmodernism’ and many scholars are studying the changing thoughts and practices of postmodern Christians that are distinctive of the earlier ...

“Delete ordinary,” says another as a figure in all-red garb paints white streaks into the background. While the makeover is explicitly modern, and a break from Jaguar’s past strategy, it intends to ...

(Alive Coverage/Courtesy Architecture Sarasota) Simultaneously, it’s the also birthplace of the Sarasota School of Architecture, a style of postwar modern architecture popularized by ...

Artist Mark Bradford discusses his process and sources of inspiration, as well as his work’s relation to politics and postmodernism. ART21: Do you think of your work as political? BRADFORD: An artist ...