Word: dialecticism
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The structure of The Winter's Tale is not bipartite, as usually maintained, but tripartite, a fine example of the Hegelian dialectic. In the first three acts we have a thesis: the chill, sterile, tragic life of Leontes's middle-aged court in Sicilia. In the fourth act, we have...
Harbutt wants to use his photographs to compose an epic tale, not merely to document. Classic photographic studies have relished the surfaces and appearances of things; they have tried to weave a dialectic between the "reality" of the subject of the photograph and the suspensionn in time and space--in...
La Guerre Est Finie is a political essay about the remnants of the Old Left revolution, directed by Alain Resnais and starring Yves Montand. The film is not casual entertainment in any sense, and if that's what you're up for this week see something else. But if you...
But it was an ambiguous present too, and hidden in the shadows, he took his small pleasures, a little worried about becoming addicted to them, but already realizing he was an addict to something else. He stayed confused by all his talented classmates, happy to be a statistic in the...
Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle ranks with the greatest plays ever written. It's based on an old legend about a wise judge who has to decide which of two mothers a child belongs to, and it has a tender quality that blends with the acerbic honesty you...