In the following essay, Weisstein considers the question of whether scholars should evaluate Expressionism primarily as a literary style, or whether they need to take into account its social and polit...
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In the following essay, Weisstein describes some of the significant differences and dichotomies inherent in the various strands of German Expressionism.
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Any attempt to analyze the most striking a...
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In the following essay, Freedman discusses the Expressionist technique of blurring the contours of ordinary objects in order to explore the relationship between human consciousness and the real world....
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In the following excerpt, Waller comments on criticism leveled against Expressionist writers by five contemporary critics: R. M. Rilke, Thomas Mann, Georg Lukács, Stefan George (through Friedri...
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In the following excerpt, Nicholls focuses on the elements of linguistic and sexual violence in the poetry and drama of the Expressionist period.
In previous chapters we have seen Paris emerge as a...
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In the following excerpt, Krispyn examines the trait of pathos, or the desire to awaken an emotional response in the reader, as one of the main characteristics of Expressionist literature.
The defi...
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In the following essay, Furness presents an overview of Expressionist drama and its treatment of religion, noting that its main theme may be summed up as “the revolt of the spirit against reali...
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In the following excerpt, Murphy explores the revolutionary tendency of many Expressionist poets, citing their use of such techniques as irony, skepticism, and manipulation of the signifier in languag...
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In the following excerpt, Krispyn presents an overview of “expressionist” writers in Germany, emphasizing that their goals and style diverged too widely to fit under the umbrella of Expr...
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Drama Unit Summary:
Expressionism
IB Theater HL
This unit in Drama we have focused on a specific type of drama, Expressionism. Rather than the realist types of drama I have experienced in other yea...
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A couple of years ago, the O.K. Harris Gallery organized an exhibition of late sculptures by Philip Pavia (1912–2005). Pavia died shortly after this tantalizing show of large primitivistic he...
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New York is awash in Expressionism. Glitter and Doom, a grim parade of Weimar-era portraits, was at the Met earlier this year. From Berlin to Broadway, a collection of modern German and Austrian wo...
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Question 1 of 10:‘Eastenders’ and the tabloids have made
Jessie
Wallace
a household name, but what was she originally called?
Karen
Samantha
Kirsten
Helen
Question 2 of 1...
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Vienna (dpa) - Visitors crowded the rooms of Vienna's Albertina
gallery, eager to see an art exhibition that is likely to change
Austria's museum landscape.
F...
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Integrity exacts a price from an artist. Take the case of painter George McNeil (1908-1995). A fixture of the New York School, McNeil refused to pose with his peers in a 1950 photo shoot for Time m...
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New York (dpa) - The legendary New York gallery owner Ileana
Sonnabend, who provided a forum for great artists such as Andy
Warhol, Georg Baselitz and Robert Rauschenberg, h...
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New York (dpa) - The legendary New York gallery owner Ileana
Sonnabend, who provided a forum for great artists such as Andy
Warhol, Georg Baselitz and Robert Rauschenberg, h...
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Question 1 of 10:Born to a working class family in
Salford
,
Albert
climbed the acting ladder until he was taken under whose wing?
Richard
Burton
's
Laurence
Olivier
's
Ralph
Richardson
's
...
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Question 1 of 10:
Virginia
Woolf
was the daughter of which 19th century philosopher, critic and biographer?a)
John
Ruskin
(0)b)
Thomas
Huxley
(0)c)
Leslie
Stephen
(1)d)
Thomas
Carlyle
(0)...
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New York/Berlin (dpa) - The New Yorker art rebel and Holocaust
survivor Boris Lurie died after a long, difficult illness, the Berlin
publicist Matthias Reichelt said Tuesday...
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Critical Essay by Ulrich Weisstein
Expressionism in Drama
Bohemian Boys Club
