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What is realism defined as?
Realism was defined as the unidealised and sinful
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What's the definition of modernity?
the transitory, the fugitive, the half of art whose other half is the eternal.
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Why did Woolf labour so much over the waves?
she thought language was inflexible and wanted a greater elasticity of expression
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what's synestheia?
when the senses blend together
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What did Elizabeth Hardwick say?
Hedda received the worst press of Ibsen's plays.
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What did Elizabeth Robbins say?
How can men understand Hedda when they did not understand her in the person of their wives, their daughters, and their women friends?
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State the personification in correspondences
"breathe confusing speech"
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State the relation to the divine in correspondences
"unity", "kindred", "correspond"
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State the relation to the religious
"temple", "columns"
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What could confusing speech be?
Talking in tongues
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Which Enlightenment thinker says go back to nature?
Rousseau
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Themes of the fly
technology, illness, metamorphoses, the non-human
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Themes of the big sleep
deception, point-of-view
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themes of apocalypse now
the non-human, deception, point of view
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themes of time code
technology, voyeurism, american dream
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