PPT-The Modern Stage (2)

Shaw and British Social Realism Dividing the Text UnitsBits ObjectivesTasks Was the exercise useful Why or why not Did you learn anything new about the character or that particular scene. Winifreds Virginia Stamford Hill Walter Reid Stanmore Warner Beach Stonebridge Washington Heights Stonebrigde Waterfall Stonehill Waterloo Sunford Watsonia Prof . Mark Knights. Early Modernity – what does it mean and is it useful?. c.1500-c.1720 – for now. Jack . A. . Goldstone calls it ‘a wholly meaningless term’ . Randolph . Starn. , ‘the early modern muddle. Modern dance. Developed in the 20. th. century out of the performer’s desire to communicate feelings or express ideas. . Much of the change came about in America, where dancers were eager to discard the traditions of dance originally designed for royalty. . Beyond Bali. Good News!. Although it is possible to study every major non-English speaking Western culture through its translated literature, this has not been the case with the literature of Indonesia. This is one of the reasons why . Sarah Campbell. Ketchikan High School. Ketchikan, Alaska. Essential Question:. In what ways did the events of modern Japan influence writers of that period? What perspectives on modernization are reflected in literature produced during the Meiji and Taisho period?. Modern . physics. Historical introduction to quantum mechanics. dr hab. inż. Katarzyna . ZAKRZEWSKA, . prof. AGH. KATEDRA ELEKTRONIKI, C-1, office 317, 3rd floor, phone 617 29 01, mobile phone 0 601 51 33 35 . What makes a long imaginative prose text “pre-modern”?. “What distinguishes the ‘modern’ novel from a pre-modern one is its content and intention. Take . Jurji. . Zaydan’s. (1861-1914) long, historical novels…which describe the immense vista of Islamic civilization on which whole generations of Arab youths in the first half of the twentieth century were nurtured. Despite their charm and immense popularity at the time, such novels were decidedly pre-modern. They reflected a blanket culture, its collective personality, the predictable, well-attuned reactions and interactions of protagonists, the repetitive expectation of their behavior, the anticipated turn of their mind, the absolute purity of character delineation (where the protagonists come out clear and unmitigated in their goodness or evil), their momentous acts of chivalry; or their demeaning actions of cowardice, intrigue, greed, or treachery. Everything was in place; everything was in harmony with well-known qualifications.”. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis . (CBS, 1959-1963). ENGL 3370: Modern American Poetry. Michael McClure. Gary Snyder. Allen Ginsberg. Jack Kerouac. ENGL 3370: Modern American Poetry. Jack Kerouac’s fictional Gary Snyder:. Early Modern Urbanism. Early Modern Drama and Urban Rituals. The Antiquarian turned Surveyor:. John . Stown. and the 1598 . Survey of London. The Missionary turned Historian:. Toribio. de . Benavente. Making History. Peter Marshall. Some mind-stretching questions:. ▪ what . is ‘identity’ in an historical context? . ▪ is . it something ‘essential’, or something socially and culturally ‘constructed’? . 1910 - 1930. Beginning of the Modern Age . (1910 –1930) . 20. th. Century—growth of population and power of the U.S.. Beginning of the Modern Age. . Problems with wars, depression, . society. Beginning of the Modern Age. Temple of Zeus from Pergamum. MODERN IDOLATRY. MATTHEW 4:8-11. “Again. , the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in their glory. And he said unto him,. A Brief History: Pioneers. What is Modern?. Emphasis on effort of dance. Natural body movements. Began in the late 1800s/early 1900s as a direct revolt against the “restrictions” of . ballet. Isadora . 1915-1945. Dr. Karen Rose. Many . historians argue that America’s cultural coming of age occurs during this . time. . The . artistic innovations . of Modernism are viewed as a . response to . dramatic historical, cultural, and economic events..