These formalists thought of literature as art and broke it down as such, taking familiar works and looking at them in new ways, just as abstract artists do. In formalism the breakdown and analysis of the rudimentary structures gives new interpretations on previous works of literature. An example of this would be, 4while Othello may be an African Moor, no amount of scholarship about the history of African Moors will be of much interest to the formalist, since the meaning of Othello's blackness can only be understood by looking at how his race is combined with other elements within the...

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Literature began to be contemplated as a profession and not just escapist amusement, which brought masculinist elitism and its conclusion that Victorian literature had been "too feminine and moralistic. " Question IV How does the radical break and innovative form of Aesthetic Modernism contribute to the paradigmatic crisis of the time? ... Question V What are the central elements and concerns developed by Childs to explain the phenomenon of Modernism? ...

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There are some key elements to the style of realism. ... Classicism is defined as "Aesthetic attitudes and principles based on the culture, art literature of ancient Greece and Rome, characterized by emphasis on form, simplicity, proportion, and restrained emotion." ...

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It's almost the same in online magazines, web design is evaluated through the simplicity of the layout of website's web elements. ... Their articles are classified under several categories namely Pop Culture, Music, Food, Art, and Literature. ... But of course, the way a magazine shares information is one of the, if the not the most, essential elements to consider by a reader. ... Rumi Magazine considers different forms of art such as music, literature, visual arts. ...

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A change came from Italy in the mid 1400s when Masaccio burst onto the scene embodying all the qualities that make the Renaissance the rebirth and rediscovery of Greco-Roman art and literature. ... Combined the above elements define what we know as Renaissance art, and we can fully attribute the "rebirth" to the bold artists who, with the help of science, pioneered new artistic techniques in the Renaissance. ... When observing the piece, elements of art such as line and value seemed predominant. ...

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The relationship between Good and Beauty as well as Life and Art in ThePicture of Dorian Gray In my essay I am going to examine how appears in The Picture of Dorian Gray the question of "Beauty- and, what is strongly related to it especially at Wilde, the question of art. I refer to some of his...

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The work of Morris is characterized by an emphasis on decorative elements, especially on those that he thought to be characteristic of the art of the Middle Ages. ... His youthful passions for art, literature, and travel were encouraged by his father, a wealthy merchant. ...

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