PDF-The Flight of the Dragon: Modernism

in China and Art at the Last Emperor s Court in exile 1 Shane McCausland The u nedited and unillustrated MS of an ar ticle to be published in Archi ves of Asian Art Duke University Press. 2 A dragon lives forever but not so little boys Painted wings and giants rings make way for other toys One gray night it happened Jackie Paper came no more And Puff that mighty drag on he ceased his fearless roar His head was bent in sorrow green sc The Waste Land. 434 Lines. Published in 1922. Considered one of, if not the, most important poem of the 20. th. century.. Edited by Ezra Pound, leading poet of the Modern Period.. The Waste Land. The five parts of . realism.. . Arguably . the most paradigmatic motive of modernism is the rejection of . tradition and . its reprise, incorporation, rewriting, recapitulation, revision and parody in new . forms.. . Modernism . Reading Contemporary Fiction. Lecture Week Seven. Structure of the lecture. Realism, a brief recap.. Modernism. Modernist . Fiction. Post-Structuralism and Post-Modernism. A Post-Modern text: 500 Days of Summer. By Rowan Cochrane . CHAPTER 1. In the ancient floating islands of Dragon City. Lived the two heroes of this story, Blazey, the brave and little Flame dragon and his best friend Scooter, The intelligent little prankster of a cloud dragon. Blazey might have been smaller out of the two. But he is the bravest because he has had many attempts to try to jump off a cliff but he was stopped by Legend the legendary dragon. Legend was older and wiser than him anyway. Scooter on the other hand (or claw) was the complete opposite of Blazey. Scooter being so intelligent, has gotten Blazey out of trouble many times. He also loves play pranks on people, and has always managed to pass the blame on to someone else every time.. Events and trends that helped shape Modernism. History that led to Modernism. World War I 1914-1918. First “modern” war. Employed new artillery firepower (machine guns, Howitzers shells, tanks, airplane . The . Lost. Generation. -Isms. Romanticism, Dark Romanticism, Transcendentalism. (Louisiana Purchase, figuring out the role of government, industrialization vs. nature). Realism. (Reaction to the Civil War, push to make literature relatable). Wassily. Kandinsky. When I grow up. What do you want to be when you grow up?. Our artist, . Wassily. Kandinsky, didn’t plan to be an artist when he grew up. He went to school and became a lawyer first!. Annual General Meeting. January 8, 2013. About Dragon Boat Charleston. Mission Statement. Promoting physical and mental wellness among cancer survivors and their community through dragon boating.. 501(c)3 non-profit organization. 1914-1945. Major Influences. World War I. The Jazz Age/Roaring Twenties. Prohibition. The Harlem Renaissance. 19. th. Amendment (Women Suffrage). The . Great Depression. The New . Deal. Factories. Larger cities. Defining. Modernism. “I haven’t changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it…It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity. That’s what modernism means to me.”. Modernism 1915-1940 After World War I Disillusionment with eternal verities of “glory,” “honor,” and “patriotism” after what the soldiers had witnessed. Gertrude Stein (actually, she overheard this): “You are all a lost generation.” A sequel to the hit PowerPoint presentation,. Modernism: More than a mass of crudely drawn rectangles, thank you very much. . (. link here. , in case you forgot that one). * . Menand. , Louis. “Saved From Drowning.” Rev. of . Parallelisms and Differences. Critical Studies Series for PG English. Shalini. Rachel Varghese. Asst. Professor, Christian College, . Chengannur. Introduction. Modernism and Postmodernism -two movements in lit and art.