Essays on Historicism

Within each society, people build relationships that foster growth and development as people interact with each other. The relationships vary according to the work and social standards of the specific society. In other words, most people in a particular society will work together to develop a common idea that will help to bind people together as a community. Within these societies, there are those simple or common guiding principles that are practiced for extended periods and become an integral part of the culture and the traditions of the society. But, not all consensuses within the society will guarantee the ...

The definition of the Western Canon is always changing, according to literary critic and Yale professor Harold Bloom: but is that mutability a good thing? Bloom, a rather conservative literary critic, believes that there should be literary standards that outlive the fashionable theories of the day. In our times, these literary theories include ideas borrow from Marx, Foucault, New Historicism, and ethnocentric and gender perspectives, among other lenses through which to view the production of literature. Amidst these ever-changing standards and definitions of a “classic,” Bloom believes the study of literature and good reading habits—to read well and ...

Egyptian Revival and Bauhaus

(History of Design Object) (Word Count) Ancient Egypt is one of the four ancient civilizations of the world and is also recognized as the oldest kingdom on the Earth. There are a number of alluring attractions in Egypt including the Pyramids on the Valley of the Kings and the well-known Great Sphinx. Those internationally renowned historical sites were constructed during the era of ancient Egyptian civilization extended from the first waterfall of Nile River to the Delta area. This civilization continued from the Tasa Culture (5000 BC) till the Arab conquest of Egypt (614 AD). The culture of ancient ...

Modernism in architecture is the most important new style and design of architecture that is associated with a logical approach to the function of buildings, a strictly balanced use of new materials, openness to architectural modernism, and the elimination of ornaments. The development of modernism in architecture could be traced back to the middle of the nineteenth century through the advent of the Bauhaus. The nineteenth century was a long period in the history of architecture because of which it is called the long 19th century. In this era, art and architecture were used in the old style that ...