The discourse of tradition and modernity in contemporary Indian culture by Ahuja Richa

“…I argue that the Victorian morality that the British colonisers of India imposed on their colonised subjects has affected the way in which tradition and modernity are viewed in contemporary India, and because of this influence, the historical concepts of tradition and modernity have been skewed. …”
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Historicity and the contemporary theatre of Kuo Pao Kun and Krishen Jit by Wee, C. J. Wan-Ling

“…And a part of the 1980s was a sense that earlier regional formations of modern art that had eradicated traditional cultural forms as backward needed to be rethought. …”
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Going on from Picasso? Late modernism and the dynamics of history by Nelson, S

“…<p>The thesis identifies and interrogates the development of a historical sensibility in the work of artists in post-war New York. …”

Time and anti-realism in modern and contemporary Irish novels by Li, Lianghui

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Gaining historical perspective on political fact-checking : the experience of the United States by Cortada, James W., Aspray, William

“…This paper provides an historical perspective on the wide use of fake facts in modern American society, and the efforts of librarians, journalists, and others to scrutinize public discourse as well as printed and online materials in order to differentiate fake facts from truth. …”
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Disciplining the state: virtue, violence, and state-making in modern China by Thornton, P

The other side of the Elbe River: interventions in art, modernity, and coloniality in Poland by Michalska, DJ

“…Stryjeńska, Hasior, Murak and Stańczak explore nuanced material reality marked by the coexistence of divergent historical patterns, asynchronous matter and overlapping temporalities. …”

Digital Techniques for Heritage Presentation and Preservation / by Mukhopadhyay, Jayanta, editor 518135, Sreedevi, Indu, editor 642824, Chanda, Bhabatosh, editor 399240, Chaudhury, Santanu, editor 642825, Namboodiri, Vinay P., editor 642826

Book review : Religion, populism, and modernity: confronting white Christian nationalism and racism by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…This is a book review of: Atalia Omer and Joshua Lupo (eds.), Religion, populism, and modernity: confronting white Christian nationalism and racism. …”
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Modernity and functionality: relooking changes in Chinese vernacular education in Singapore, 1919-1941 by Ho, Amanda Shi Min

“…This thesis focuses on the final stage – modern Chinese schools. I argue that modern Chinese schools in Singapore started around 1919 to the start of the Japanese Occupation in 1942 as it was the period when the schools had shed their “traditional” elements from traditional reading schools. …”
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Culinary civilization: the representation of food culture in Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf by O'Brien, N

“…Drawing on sociological thinking from Norbert Elias's conception of the civilizing process and Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of distinction, and using a combined methodology of close reading, biographical and historical analysis, I show that food acts as a lens for these authors' ideas about civil society and modernity. …”

Mutual predictiveness of sound correspondences for reconstruction and language subgrouping: the case of Gyalrongic preinitials by Lai, Yunfan

“…This paper uses Gyalrongic languages, a conservative branch of Sino-Tibetan, to illustrate a new method to evaluate proto-language reconstructions in general historical linguistics and to conduct exploratory analyses in language phylogeny. …”
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MU'TAQAL Machine: Power, Gender and Identity in Egypt's Political Prisons, 1948-1981 by Ashmawi, HE

Poetics of the urban, poetics of the self: a comparative study of selected works by Jorge Luis Borges and Jacques Réda by Puello Alfonso, SL

“…Their objective is to restore, through the prism of their minds and their physical investment in space, the provincial spirit of Buenos Aires and Paris, hidden behind the dynamism of the modern metropolises they have become. As a consequence of this communion between self and place they explore the possibility of being on the brink of a revelatory experience that speaks to the enigma of life. …”

Dialectic of digital enlightenment: reclaiming radical philosophy for our times by Nayak, Bhabani Shankar

Classical lyricism in Italian and North American 20th-century poetry by Piantanida, C

4.301 Introduction to the Visual Arts, Fall 2004 by Frank, Andrea, 1970-

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4.301 Introduction to the Visual Arts, Fall 2005 by Scher, Julia

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4.301 Introduction to the Visual Arts, Fall 2006 by Zane, Joe

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A Splendid Exchange : How Trade Shaped the World / by Bernstein, William J., author 348907

“…A Financial Times and Economist Best Book of the Year exploring world trade from Mesopotamia in 3,000 BC to modern globalization. How did trade evolve to the point where we don’t think twice about biting into an apple from the other side of the world? …”
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