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In his 1999 book, Still the New World, American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction, Philip Fisher analyzes the themes of creative destruction at play in literary works of the twentieth century, including the works of such authors as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Henry James, among others ...
In philosophy, deconstruction is a loosely-defined set of approaches to understanding the relationship between text and meaning.The concept of deconstruction was introduced by the philosopher Jacques Derrida, who described it as a turn away from Platonism's ideas of "true" forms and essences which are valued above appearances.
Destruktion, a term from the philosophy of Martin Heidegger; Destructive narcissism, a pathological form of narcissism; Self-destructive behaviour, a widely used phrase that conceptualises certain kinds of destructive acts as belonging to the self
Book burning is the deliberate destruction by fire of books or other written materials, usually carried out in a public context. The burning of books represents an element of censorship and usually proceeds from a cultural, religious, or political opposition to the materials in question. [ 1 ]
The World's End is a 2013 British-American comic science fiction film directed by Edgar Wright, written by Wright and Simon Pegg, and starring Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan and Rosamund Pike. The film follows a group of friends who discover an alien invasion during a pub crawl in their hometown.
The American form of this sensibility centered on the writers Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, with Charles Brockden Brown being a predecessor. [18] As opposed to the perfectionist beliefs of Transcendentalism , these darker contemporaries emphasized human fallibility and proneness to sin and self-destruction , as well ...
The cause of the destruction is never made clear. Film 1997 Unspecified Trucks: Canadian/American made-for-TV adaptation of the Stephen King short story by the same name. Game 1997–present War The Fallout series: A nuclear war in 2077 devastates much of the U.S. Players start out in underground shelters called Vaults. Film 1998 War Six-String ...
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...