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...Administration's new plan to keep people in their homes by reducing what they have to pay for their mortgages each month actually has a similar effect on "ownership" although that may not be apparent at first. (See pictures of renting a modernist home...
...rapidly falling prices of homes and lower interest rates on mortgages got the credit for the positive move. (See pictures of modernist houses for rent...
...they're more likely to stay with family or find a roommate instead of renting a place of their own. Plus, in the wake of escalating home foreclosures, condos not selling and investor properties sitting unflipped, there are units from unconventional sources opening up for rent. (See pictures of modernist houses for rent...
...model of TV series or, for that matter, the serial novels of the 19th century. We can expect a literary culture of pleasure and immediate gratification. Reading on a screen speeds you up: you don't linger on the language; you just click through. We'll see less modernist-style difficulty and more romance-novel-style sentiment and high-speed-narrative throughput. Novels will compete to hook you in the first paragraph and then hang on for dear life...
...language, in interpretation, and in the analysis of works of literature, art, and culture. Many of my books, both those on Shakespeare and those on other topics, engage with contemporary life,” Garber says. And as such, she considers herself “as much a modernist as I am a Renaissance scholar...in everything I write, whether it’s an Op-Ed article or a magazine piece, Shakespeare has played an important role.” Despite what could seem to be the rather narrow focus of “Shakespeare and Modern Culture...