especially if you are writing coursework essays rather than pub- lishing research - to the simpler alternative of just ... ABSTRACT OR SUMMARY An abstract is a short ( usually 100-200 word ) summary of your essay , but is usually only ...
Author: Nigel Fabb
Publisher: Pearson Education
ISBN: 0582784557
Category: Academic writing
Page: 190
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"Fabb and Durant show that original ideas gain good grades only when turned into coherent writing. More generally, they encourage you to see writing not just as a way of expressing ideas you've already had or research you've already done, but as a means of discovering new ideas and thinking things for the first time."--BOOK JACKET.
In the 1960s, the abstract art that fulfilled Greenberg 's te- leological promise was that of Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski and Anthony Caro. The color-field painting of the first three, with its cool emphasis on the ...
Author: Clement Greenberg
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226306230
Category: Architecture
Page: 339
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Clement Greenberg is widely recognized as the most influential and articulate champion of modernism during its American ascendency after World War II, the period largely covered by these highly acclaimed volumes of The Collected Essays and Criticism. Volume 3: Affirmations and Refusals presents Greenberg's writings from the period between 1950 and 1956, while Volume 4: Modernism with a Vengeance gathers essays and criticism of the years 1957 to 1969. The 120 works range from little-known pieces originally appearing Vogue and Harper's Bazaar to such celebrated essays as "The Plight of Our Culture" (1953), "Modernist Painting" (1960), and "Post Painterly Abstraction" (1964). Preserved in their original form, these writings allow readers to witness the development and direction of Greenberg's criticism, from his advocacy of abstract expressionism to his enthusiasm for color-field painting. With the inclusion of critical exchanges between Greenberg and F. R. Leavis, Fairfield Porter, Thomas B. Hess, Herbert Read, Max Kozloff, and Robert Goldwater, these volumes are essential sources in the ongoing debate over modern art. For each volume, John O'Brian has furnished an introduction, a selected bibliography, and a brief summary of events that places the criticism in its artistic and historical context.
Orgasmic Salvation 101, or My Eschatalogical Genitals, and How They Undergird a New Theory of Abstract Painting. If my essay has a larger polemical aim, beyond the praise of Bess's paintings, that motive might be a modest bid to ...
Author: Wayne Koestenbaum
Publisher: FSG Originals
ISBN: 9780374709761
Category: Literary Collections
Page: 336
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Wayne Koestenbaum returns with a zesty and hyper-literate collection of personal and critical essays Wayne Koestenbaum has been described as "an impossible lovechild from a late-night, drunken three-way between Joan Didion, Roland Barthes, and Susan Sontag" (Bidoun). In My 1980s and Other Essays, a collection of extravagant range and style, he rises to the challenge of that improbable description. My 1980s and Other Essays opens with a series of manifestos—or, perhaps more appropriately, a series of impassioned disclosures, intellectual and personal. It then proceeds to wrestle with a series of major cultural figures, the author's own lodestars and lodestones: literary (John Ashbery, Roberto Bolaño, James Schuyler), artistic (Diane Arbus, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol), and simply iconic (Brigitte Bardot, Cary Grant, Lana Turner). And then there is the personal—the voice, the style, the flair—that is unquestionably Koestenbaum. It amounts to a kind of intellectual autobiography that culminates in a string of passionate calls to creativity; arguments in favor of detail and nuance, and attention; a defense of pleasure, hunger, and desire in culture and experience. Koestenbaum is perched on the cusp of being a true public intellectual—his venues are more mainstream than academic, his style is eye-catching, his prose unfailingly witty and passionate, his interests profoundly wide-ranging and popular. My 1980s should be the book that pushes Koestenbaum off that cusp and truly into the public eye.
... which appears also in abstract in the same volume of the Geological Journal that contains the abstract of the essay and the map just referred to . ( I. 442. ) That this abstract also is made by another than the author is evident ...
So far he may abstract . But this will never prove that he can frame an abstract general inconsistent idea of a triangle . " If a man may consider a figure merely as triangular , he must have some conception of this object of his ...
Abstracts of Professor Weismann's Essays on Heredity and Kindred Problems , already Published in this country . I. A short abstract in ' Nature , ' Vol . XXXVII , pp . 541-542 , by P. C. MITCHELL . II . A short abstract in ' Nature ...
So far he may abstract . But this will never prove that he can frame an abstract general inconsistent idea of a triangle . " If a man may consider a figure merely as triangular , he must have some conception of this object of his ...
(Locke, 1924, ECHU, III.iii.6) He that thinks general natures or notions are anything else but such abstract and partial ideas of more complex ones, taken at first from particular experiences, will, I fear, be at a loss where to find ...
Author: Bob Hale
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198854296
Category: Philosophy
Page: 318
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Essays on Existence and Essence presents a series of writings--including several previously unpublished--by Bob Hale on the topics of ontology and modality. The essays develop and consolidate a number of themes central to his work and to contemporary metaphysics, logic, and philosophy of language. They display Hale's innovative approach to some of the most fundamental issues in philosophy, in dialogue (and, in some cases, in collaboration) with other leading philosophers. The notion of a definition is examined as it applies both to words--verbal definitions-and to things--real definitions--and the relations between these are brought out in order to address problems in the metaphysics of necessity and the semantics and epistemology of modality. Hale argues for an essentialist theory of the source of necessity and our knowledge of it, and provides rigorous and inventive responses to problems such a theory might face. This theoretical framework is applied to the recently influential truthmaking approach to semantics and logic, developing an exact truthmaker account of universal quantification and modal statements. Other topics covered include the Fregean theory of ontological categories, the status of second-order logic, the metaphysics of numbers, and the nature of analytic propositions. The volume opens with a substantial introduction by Kit Fine, providing a critical examination of Hale's philosophy, and closes with a complete bibliography of Hale's writings.
... ABSTRACT: This essay argues that Sartre's notion of bad faith cannot be adequately understood, unless one takes the latter half of Being and Nothingness into serious consideration. Sartre employs a Cartesian methodology; ...
Abstracts of Essays in Vol . I independently published in this Country . I. A short abstract in ' Nature , ' Vol . XXXVII , pp . 541-542 , by P. C. MITCHELL . II . A short abstract in Nature , ' Vol . XXXVIII , pp .