Tag: enlightenment

• Culture Industry, and Why It Doesn’t Exist

  

  This short essay will take the views and arguments of Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer on their self-named “culture industry” at its key interest, and will try to provide rebutting statements from a classical liberalist, and laissez-faire perspective. Lines from a summary of their chapter called Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception, within the larger…

  Bornaith

  14 September 2024

  Literary Criticism

  Adorno, capitalism, commoditization, culture, dialectic, DialecticofEnglightenment, enlightenment, freemarket, Horkheimer, industry, liberalism, mass, massmedia, media, Theodoradorno

• Augustan Literature

  

  Embodying major ideas such as scepticism upon the monarchy, the pursuit of scientific knowledge through reason, and accepting each person as an individual, the Age of Enlightenment which occupied the better part of the 17th and 18th centuries was a period of intellectual and cultural growth in Europe that gave birth to writers and poets…

  Bornaith

  14 September 2024

  Essays

  ageofreason, AModestProposal, Augustan, augustanliterature, dryden, enlightenment, johndryden, JonathanSwift, macflecknoe, pamela, samueljackson, shadwell, swift

• Romantic and Modernist Literature, A Comparison

  Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist literature, while addressing various concerns in their different ways, are inseparable. Romantic literature is, on paper, concerned with the expression of human emotion while the Victorian Era represents an interim period where much is experimental and hard to pin down, and Modernist literature experimented with various new techniques and concepts, and…

  Bornaith

  5 February 2024

  Literary Criticism

  blake, enlightenment, franzkafka, jamesjoyce, kafka, metamorphosis, Modernistliterature, mystical, renaissance, revolution, Romance, romanceliterature, romantic, supernatural, thetygerandthelamb, theworldistoomuchwithus, ulysses, victorian, williamblake, williamwordsworth, wordsworth