In this painting we see the characteristics or the period Postmodernism is a complicated term, or set of ideas, one that has only emerged as an area of academic study since the mid-1980s. Postmodernism is hard to define, because it is a concept that appears in a wide variety of disciplines or areas of study, including art, architecture, music, film, literature, sociology, communications, fashion, and technology. ... Modernism, as you probably know, is the movement in visual arts, music, literature, and drama which rejected the old classical standards of how art should be made, consumed, and w...

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Eliot's study of the poetry of Dante, of the English writers John Webster and John Donne, and of the French symbolist Jules Laforgue, along with the influence of his new tutor-guide Bergson, helped the young poet to find his own style - unique, though close to that of the imagists. ... From 1911 to 1914 Eliot was back at Harvard, USA, reading Indian philosophy and studying Sanskrit, but then he returned to France. After several years of residence in Europe and studies in Paris, in Munich, and at Merton College in Oxford, where he went to in August 1914 (after the World War I had broken ...

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Their more than forty films resulted in making the Yanomami of this particular village are one of the most visually well-represented aboriginal peoples in 20th century anthropological studies. ... For two days following this request, a shamanic drama is enacted, led by Dedeheiwa. ... The elaborate drama goes on for two days. ... According to Tiffany and Adams: "Other anthropologists, including those who have conducted field research among the Yanomami, have challenged Chagnon's sociobiological paradigm of the "Fierce People" and their dubious international status as a case study of tribal...

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In 1899, Arthur Symons, one of the poetic 'aesthetes' of the 1890s, published his study The Symbolist Movement in Poetry, which would have great influence on modern poets like W.B. ... After the hostile reception of his tragic and bitter novel Jude the Obscure in 1895, he devoted himself largely to poetry and poetic drama until his death in 1928. ...

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