Modernity's Pretenses ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-)

Modernity's Pretenses ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-)Undermines modernity's authority through a cultural and historical examination of texts and thinkers from the Enlightenment to post Stalinist Europe. Modernity's Pretenses undermines modernity's authority through a cultural and historical examination of texts and thinkers from the Enlightenment to post Stalinist Europe. Racevskis argues that modernity's elaborate designs for rationalizing the world have mainly functioned as covers and alibis (i. e.,

and general readers will appreciate the book's sweeping introduction to a host of concerns in feminist theory while applying a gender lens to a wide range of literature and media from the past two centuries

Set in 1929

smoking factory churns out perfumes and soaps for the people of England

Presents a performance history of a controversial play

all alterations can be explained from that figure

and personal interviews

important industry developments and the endurance of the British film industry

This original collection of essays examines for the first time the place of 'saints' and sanctity in nineteenth-century Britain

The methodology is predominantly aesthetic

which focuses on four rural shrines

and as such it seeks to bring forward the deeper forces that guide the work of all the sons and all the daughters of Daidalos

Drawing upon an extensive and wide-ranging literature