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From the Barbaric Heart: Sufjan Stevens’ Vengeful Play

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Age of Adz, Beethoven, Jimi Hendrix, Nina Hagen, Plato, Plotinus, Romanticism, Shelley, Sufjan Stevens, sun ra, William Blake on April 4, 2011 | 4 Comments »

I was listening to Sufjan Stevens’ song “I Walked” on his new album The Age of Adz when it occurred to me how much in keeping his work is with the project of Romanticism. Like the Romantics, Sufjan is alienated from the values of the culture into which he happened to be born. He is [...]

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The Dominant, ctd.

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Abstract Expressionism, Alexander Rodchenko, Andy Warhol, Borges, Brian McHale, Charles Demuth, Constructivism, Cubism, Edouard Manet, Edward Hopper, Frankenstein, Franz Kline, German Expressionism, Grant Wood, Harry Potter, Helen Frankenthaler, Heraclitus, Impressionism, J-horror, J.K. Rowling, John Barth, Mark Rothko, Mary Shelley, Modernism, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Pierre Menard, Pop Art, postmodernism, Richard Hamilton, Romanticism, Roy Lichtenstein on March 6, 2010 | 13 Comments »

Update: If a blog post can ever be said to be in honor of anyone, then consider this one in honor of Ruth Kligman. May she rest in peace. In the comments section of my last post, Shya asked: can someone write a truly romantic novel today? Or would it necessarily be a postmodern (or [...]

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The Dominant and the Longue Durée

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Annales School, Ben Marcus, Bob Perelman, Brian McHale, Brom, Dick Tracy, fantasy, Fernand Braudel, Frank Frazetta, Jen Bervin, Ken Edwards, Language poetry, longue durée, Modernism, opera, parataxis, postmodernism, Roman Jakobson, Romanticism, Ron Silliman, Shakespeare, Shrek, sonnet, Stephen Moore, the dominant, The Lord of the Rings, The New Sentence, Ulysses, Wordsworth, Yury Tynyanov, Yvor Winters on March 6, 2010 | 23 Comments »

It’s a very familiar story: Romanticism began in 1798 and ended in 1900, when it was replaced by Modernism. …Although maybe it wasn’t replaced until 1901; it must have taken a while back then, in those days before cellular phones and email, to “get the memo,” as we say today. How long did it really [...]

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Notes on Twee, part 2: The Crash Test Dummies (Those Avant-Garde Harbingers of Mainstream Superheroes, School Plays, and the Willful Embrace of Nostalgia)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Baroque, Beat Happening, Beetlejuice, Belle Epoque, chamber pop, comics, Crash Test Dummies, David Lynch, Death of Superman, Edward Gorey, grunge, High School Musical, Joan Osborne, Nitsuh Abebe, nostalgia, Peter Greenaway, punk, Ranz des Vaches, Romanticism, Smashing Pumpkins, Stan Brakhage, superheroes, Television Personalities, Terry Gilliam, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover, The Elephant Man, The Magnetic Fields, The Softies, The Vaselines, Tim Burton, Twee, Twee as Fuck on February 11, 2010 | 12 Comments »

In my last post in this series, I embedded and linked to every single music video I know that uses the concept of the video as a school musical. (Please let me know if I’ve missed any; I’m sure there are more.) Such videos became especially pronounced in the 2000s, especially between 2005 and 2007. [...]

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Posts Tagged ‘Romanticism’

From the Barbaric Heart: Sufjan Stevens’ Vengeful Play

The Dominant, ctd.

The Dominant and the Longue Durée

Notes on Twee, part 2: The Crash Test Dummies (Those Avant-Garde Harbingers of Mainstream Superheroes, School Plays, and the Willful Embrace of Nostalgia)

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