LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century

Paper · Semantic Scholar

The beginning of the 21st century marks an “urbanization” of literary space, reflecting global trends that foreground the city as a key cultural and psychological construct. In contemporary Ukrainian literature, the city functions not only as a geographical locus but as a symbol of identity, memory, and transformation. This study examines the artistic image of Proskuriv (modern Khmelnytskyi) in Olha Salipa’s works, …

Reference · Wikidata

time period between January 1, 1901, and ended on December 31, 2000

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

The 20th century began on 1 January 1901, and ended on 31 December 2000. It was the 10th and last century in the 2nd millennium and was marked by new models of scientific understanding, unprecedented scopes of warfare, new modes of communication that would operate at nearly instant speeds, and new forms of art and entertainment. Population growth was also unprecedented, as the century started with around 1.6 billion…

Image · Europeana

Book · DOAB

How can the individual find the road to emancipation if modernity, which promises it to him, turns out to be a cage? If he is ensnared and not liberated by social, political, economic and technical-scientific progress, lost in the labyrinth of the big cities? Works from the last decades of the 19th century by Ibsen, Bang, Strindberg, Obstfelder and Claussen show the acute perception of the dilemma, but also invite o…

Full text · Open Library

Wikipedia We is set in the future. D-503, a spacecraft engineer, lives in the One State, an urban nation constructed almost entirely of glass, which assists mass surveillance. The structure of the state is Panopticon-like, and life is scientifically managed F. W. Taylor-style. People march in step with each other and are uniformed. There is no way of referring to people except by their given numbers. The society …

Image · DPLA

Issue 54.1 of the Review for Religious, January/February 1995.