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  • Russian formalism was an influential school of literary criticism ... members are widely considered the founders of modern literary criticism. ...
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  • Erewhon, and his posthumous novel, The Way of All Flesh, a semi-autobiographical ... Nottinghamshire, England, into a long line of clerics. He was seemingly preordained ...
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  • critic and university administrator, was one of the antirationalist Oxford ... Inspired by a careful study of Spinoza, Hampshire developed a detailed ...
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  • 17, 1934) was a Spanish histologist (study of tissues) and physician who ... To observe the structure of individual neurons, Ramón y Cajal used ...
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  • and the role he played in the development of the larger cultural movement ... to philosophy and criticized his lack of understanding about the role ...
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  • The system of five phases was used for describing interactions and ... believed to control the change and movement of the universe, and to provide ...
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  • – January 23, 1991), a Canadian, was one of the most distinguished literary ... degree at Victoria College, University of Toronto. He then studied theology ...
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  • the term De Stijl is used to refer to a body of work from 1917 to 1931, founded ... De Stijl is also the name of a journal that was published by the Dutch ...
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  • Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully ... The concept of the state of flow is similarly found in the traditions ...
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  • a German ethnologist and archaeologist, one of the leading experts on prehistoric ... life does, noting three phases in the life of a culture. He also recognized ...
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  • involved visual arts, literature (poetry, art manifestoes, art theory), ... Like Surrealism and many other modern art movements, Dadaism reflected ...
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  • Pope to expand the papal territory by force of arms, and was a prominent patron ... Urban easily attracts criticism. Yet in both of these he but followed the example ...
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  • famous for his contribution to theories of cultural evolution. His approach ... Marvin Harris was born in Brooklyn, New York, into a poor family of ...
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  • surfacing throughout the very early years of the last century, the 1907 ... The futurists explored every medium of art, including painting, sculpture ...
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  • ) is a French term meaning "end of century,” a phrase which ... The "spirit" of fin de siècle often refers to the cultural ...
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  • When William Penn, the founder of the state of Pennsylvania, and himself ... purposes or to emphasize the rich heritage of their creators' home country ...
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  • 250px|Fashion illustration by George Barbier of a gown by Jeanne Paquin, 1912 ... In general, the term fashion refers to a prevailing mode of expression ...
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  • 250px|Cornsweet illusion. The left part of the picture seems to be darker ... section creates the impression that one side of the image is in fact darker ...
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  • or entertainment-education) is a form of entertainment designed to educate ... to all human activities. In the field of positive psychology, theorists ...
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  • December 13, 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. One of the most ... Kandinsky's creation of purely abstract style did not come about ...
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