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Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"The period 1900-1940 produced revolutionary developments in science and the arts. The rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity in 1900 undercut the popular notion that the values and character traits of parents blend in offspring and are transmitted directly to them. In The Interpretation of Dreams of 1900 Sigmund Freud laid the foundation for his theory of the mind as a network of unconscious processes and the residue of childhood psychosexual...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The quality of today's literary writing arouses the strongest opinions. For novelist and critic Gabriel Josipovici, the contemporary novel in English is profoundly disappointing--a poor relation of its groundbreaking Modernist forebears. This agile and passionate book asks why. Modernism, Josipovici suggests, is only superficially a reaction to industrialization of a revolution in diction and form; essentially, it is art arriving at a consciousness...
9) Transkulturelle Perspektiven: die deutschsprachige Literatur der Moderne in ihren Wechselwirkungen
Author
Publisher
Wydawn. Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Deutsch