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Transcendental Club
Transcendental Club, name applied by outsiders to the New England intellectuals who met occasionally and informally, during the seven or eight years following 1836, at Emerson's home in Concord and elsewhere, to discuss philosophy, theology, and literature. The members called themselves the... Read more |
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Agathon
Agathon , c.450-c.400 BC, Athenian tragedian. Plato's Symposium has as its scene the celebration of Agathon's first dramatic victory. Less than 40 lines of his work survive.... Read more |
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Daniel Berkeley Updike
Daniel Berkeley Updike , 1860-1941, American printer and historian of typography, b. Providence, R.I. At the Merrymount Press, which he founded in 1893 in Boston, his stated purpose was "to do common work well." Here, the excellence of his printing, influenced by William Morris , inspired and... Read more |
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Samuel McIntire
Samuel McIntire , 1757-1811, American architect and woodcarver, b. Salem, Mass. He developed high skill as a joiner and housewright and in wood sculpture. McIntire's opportunities, both as builder and carver, came in designing houses for the shipowning aristocracy of Salem. In the interiors of these... Read more |
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Xenophon
Xenophon , c.430 BC-c.355 BC, Greek historian, b. Athens. He was one of the well-to-do young disciples of Socrates before leaving Athens to join the Greek force (the Ten Thousand) that was in the service of Cyrus the Younger of Persia. These troops served Cyrus at the disastrous battle of Cunaxa ... Read more |
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Woody Allen
Woody Allen 1935-, American actor, writer, and director, one of contemporary America's leading filmmakers, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., as Allen Stewart Konigsberg. Allen began his career writing for television comedians and performing in nightclubs. His early film comedies, which often depict neurotic urban... Read more |
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Woody Herman
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deconstruction
deconstruction in linguistics, philosophy, and literary theory, the exposure and undermining of the metaphysical assumptions involved in systematic attempts to ground knowledge, especially in academic disciplines such as structuralism and semiotics . The term "deconstruction" was coined by... Read more |
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THE CRITICS: CINEMA: A dance to the music of sex: Tango Director: Carlos...
...Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita was already tripe and Alan Parker' s film version was simply...Last Love. More recently, Woody Allen' s Everyone Says I Love You...what's called a self-reflexive work. Its ... |
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An Irishman's Diary
...Of course, such reflexive communication would...in the writer's career suggested...Flaubert's niece later recalled...of Dr Cloquet's promised insights...Flaubert's grateful critics and biographers...criticism since ... |
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A PHILOSOPHER'S PRESENCE SOME ASSUME, MISTAKENLY, THAT JACQUES DERRIDA'S...
...school literary critics always understood...in a text that's outside the rules...Indeed, Derrida's signature style...American media and Woody Allen. When Derrida...it was always reflexive. Concepts deconstruct...A ... |
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...obvious, self-reflexive humor and aggressive...DreamWorks' and Pixar's creative wit...demands, yet it's nothing to scoff...for the king's new bride (Sophia...Not screened for critics. Brokeback Mountain...instances in which ... |