Gatsby's Dream: Outdated or Avant-garde——Evaluation towards Gatsby's Dream

This article examines Gatsby's dream to point out some positive aspects of Gatsby and the causes leading to his tragedy so as to see whether it is outdated or avant-garde as well as to reflect on the present society.

Jos Berry and Her New Avant-garde Film

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Roland Barthes and the Impossible Autobiography

Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes is an autobiographical work by the French literary theorist Roland Barthes,written in the early seventies of the twentieth century.According to the Latin alphabet,the book arranges and combines some passages with different themes,which gives the book the formal characteristics of the dictionary and violates the writing norms of traditional autobiographies.In addition,the book uses the first person,the second person,and the third person interchangeably to carry out a polyphonic narrative,which destroys the integrity and authenticity of the narrative subject,thus completing an avant-garde literary experiment.

“先锋派”概念景观设计探析(英文)

The paper had illustrated concept and positioning of avant-garde,and proposed that there were three major methods to manifest concepts in conceptual landscape design,which were:① reproduced landscape from historical perspective;② landscape of local characteristic based on fields;③ landscape of abstract formal beauty with visual impact.Characteristics of conceptual landscape design had been summarized by taking classical design by Martha Schwartz for example,which contained ① fuzzy boundary between art and garden,② gardens full of imagination and freedom,③ pioneering spirit full of courage and challenge.Finally,the paper had predicted the future of conceptual landscape design and considered that conceptual design would change with the emergence of high-tech and new materials;and conceptual landscape designers should be in possession of pioneering spirit of challenge and innovation.

Feminist Literary Criticism: A Paradigm of Matriarchy inLiterature

Feminist literary theory underpins literature from matriarchal perspective revolting against prototype patriarchal ritual i.e.established dogmatism,superstition,close-eyed religious propaganda,language engineering and so forth.It questions the textual politics of dissipating womankind in literature.It shatters long-cherishing outlook of gender inequality,gender politics,power relation,sexual objectification,oppression,patriarchy,stereotyping and so on.In this connection,this theory sees women along with their experiences,thinking,language,position and role playing,cultural conditioning,diction,and above all,matriarchal assertion in literature.Feminist literary criticism has been generated from feminism and the basic aim of the theory is to investigate and trace out how female characters have been positioned in literature compared with male characters in terms of social and biological factors of different ages of the past started from antiquity.Feminist literary theory has also deconstructed texts from two different perspectives i.e.text written by men and text written by women.This paper attempts to evalualte feminist literary criticism as a subtle machinery or paradigm of matriarchy not only in avant-garde but also in old texts of literature.

Avant-Garde Austalgia

The Australian avant-garck raises all the contradictions of avant-garde studies in the present time.Antipodal vanguards in the 20th and 21 st centuries would grapple with various aspects of Australian national history,being in various ways and times between East and West,the aligned and non-aligned,the political and geopolitical in poetics.The word"Australia,"from the Latin auster,contains meanings for"East."Most importantly,the Antipodal vanguard exposes the contradictions of Australia’s imperial-colonial past and the struggle to overcome it.In this essay,1 begin with the example of a"Dada"poem that comes from an Aboriginal rain dance,as well as the emergence of Dada poetics from the 1950s to the 1970s.Throughout I keep complexities of history and time at the forefront:what is the worth of a"marginal"national literary history of the avant-garde?What does the avant-garde mean outside Europe or the Euro-US?What can Australian Dadaism tell us about the future of avant-garde studies?Docs the avant-garde always lead to nostalgia,or"Austalgia,"a hearkening after the past,as much as a striving toward the future?

Shanghai and New York:Mid-Century Urban Avant-Gardes

This article examines the cultural and architectural exchanges between Shanghai and New York in the mid-20^(th) century and their iconic roles as avant-garde global capitals.It considers the cultural and architectural free-thinkers and the groundbreaking movements they led,as well as their influence on the character and identity of both cities.Art Deco was the emblematic symbol of these modern forces.The article analyses the new technologies and theatrical perspective,the performative and spectacular qualities of Art Deco as the signature styles and cultural heritage of both cities.

The Presencing Tendency:French and American Avant-Garde Strategies under the Formal Subsumption of Art

Whether what we call the avant-garde in literature ended sometime in the last century or,conversely,persists to this day is an open question.But rather than coming down on one side or another of the issue,this essay concerns itself with what the avant-garde looks like when,in Bourdieusian terms,it feels its very position to be at stake in the field's struggle for domination,both internally and externally,with the field of power.Either by historical coincidence or,more intriguingly,by something as nefarious as influence,both the French and the American avant-gardes of the 1950s and 60s witnessed the development of a similar aesthetic tendency in response to encroachments upon the restricted production of their respective literary fields by external forces.This tendency,which I call a“poetics of presence,”is a gambit for textual immediacy-what Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht terms“presence effects,”as opposed to“meaning effects.”Through readings of theoretical works by Alain Robbe-Grillet,on the one hand,and poems by Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery,on the other,I demonstrate the character of the poetics of presence in the French and American contexts,concluding ultimately that in both cases such strategies function to preserve a formal subsumption of artistic labor under conditions of restricted production,as against the threading incursions of the real subsumption of that labor to which external forces-capital,politics-would subject it.

“Seek it in Poetry”:John Dewey,William Carlos Williams,and Avant-Gardist Educational Reform

This essay looks at the unlikely conjunction of avant-garde poetics, educational reform, and the ideas of John Dewey in the work of William Carlos Williams, a conjunction unaddressed in the major critical treatment of Williams and Dewey, John Beck’s Writing the Radical Center. I focus mainly on Williams’s work of the 1920s, when he was reading Dewey’s essays in The Dial and thinking through some of his most central poetic and philosophic principles in relation to Dewey. This decade culminates in the Dewey-influenced The Embodiment of Knowledge . Williams’s hopes in Embodiment that poetry might somehow contribute to reshaping the bases of the educational system had already appeared a few years earlier in one of the touchstones of avant-garde poetics, the 1923 Spring and All , where a number of the later work’s central concepts arise. With Spring and All seized by customs officials and Embodiment unpublished until 1974, this crucial aspect of Williams’s poetics went almost completely overlooked at the time. However, the notes that make up Embodiment extend Spring and All not just thematically but in their disjunctive, paratactic, and tonally confrontational method as Williams works out through the 1920s his avant-garde poetics of educational reform.

Xianfeng？ Houfeng？ Youfeng？-An analysis of selected contemporary Chinese architects, Yung Ho Chang, Liu Jiakun, and Wang Shu （1990s-2000s）

The three contemporary Chinese architects, namely Yung Ho Chang, Liu Jiakun, and Wang Shu, have often been labeled as the ＇avant-garde＇ or xianfeng architects in China. In response to the xionfeng architect labet, Wang claims that he is a houfeng （rear-guard） architect because of his obsession with traditions. This paper aims to discuss the appropriateness of labeling these architects as ＇avant-garde,＇ xianfeng, or houfeng. Through the theoreticat anatysis of western discourse, notable attributes of the western architectural avant-garde are identified, and a tentative framework is developed to test its validity and usefulness in a non-western context. The term youleng is arguably a better phrase to describe these three Chinese architects considering the heterogeneous trajectory of modernity in China.

Zero Hour in Arno Schmidfs Triptych Leviathan;or, An Adventure Allegorist at the Crossroads

Amo Schmidt's tripartite Leviathan(1949;written 1946-1948)is one of the few German narratives composed immediately after World War II.Different from the then newly-propagated Triimmerliteratur(literature among the ruins)or the literature of Vergangenheitsbewaltigung(coping with the past),Schmidt's writing condensed and“dehydrated”narrative events,weaving antiquity and his personal experience into one in order to lay bare historical lines of continuity.Relating to Pytheas of Marsilia,to an ethics based on praxis and to modem physics,he undertakes a demanding topography of“hell descents”within which he also put into doubt political and academic demands upon a cultural legacy that was,to him,anything but timeless.The essay explores Schmidt's didactic,innovative use of allegory and other rhetorical devices as tools for understanding long-term consequences of failures of interpretation and forceful restrictions on the play of imagination.

Maggie O’Sullivan’s Notational Poetics

The poetry of Maggie O’Sullivan, a poet associated with the British Poetry Revival, activates prosodic dissonance and incorporates music, which is to say musical scores. In works like From the Handbook of That & Furriery and Palace of Reptiles , musical scores are collaged into the body of the poem. Using the phrase “notational poetics,” this analysis is as much concerned with poems that sound as poems that don’t, but poetry nonetheless that both treats the spatial field of the poem scorelike and / or includes actual musical notation. When poetry meets music myriad questions crop up: Is poetry a kind of (analogous) “music,” as often suggested? What draws poetry to music, and vice versa? Is some mutual estrangement the result of poetry and music having become further alienated over time?