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81The Late 20th and early 21st centuries — Scandinavian literature after World War II reflects the political realities of the Cold War era. Denmark, Iceland, and Norway all joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), while Sweden maintained its prewar neutrality and Finland… …
Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater
82Postmodernism — Sometimes used so as to include metafiction, fabulation, and literary self reference, postmodernism is a manifestation of a broader tendency against realism. Unencumbered by the dreams ofdialectical harmony, postmodernism celebrates the… …
Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater
83Kant: Critique of Judgement — Patrick Gardiner Kant’s third Critique, the Critique of Judgement, was published in 1790 and was intended as he himself put it to bring his “entire critical undertaking to a close.” So conceived, it was certainly in part designed to build upon… …
84Freud, Sigmund — (1856–1939) Now known as the founder of psychoanalysis, Freud enrolled in the University of Vienna in 1873 as a medical student; he later entered the General Hospital of Vienna in 1882 to qualify for private practice. He soon joined the staff… …
85instance — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. case, example, illustration, demonstration. See conformity. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. example, case, situation, occurrence; see example 1 . See Synonym Study at example . v. Syn. exemplify, show, cite… …
86epitomize — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. outline, summarize, condense; see compress , decrease 2 , summarize . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. typify, represent, exemplify, embody. III (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb 1. To give a recapitulation of the salient facts… …
87Conformity — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Conformity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 1 =>{opp,83,} conformity conformance Sgm: N 1 observance observance Sgm: N 1 habituation habituation GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 naturalization naturalization Sgm …
88exemplification — early 15c., from Anglo Fr. exemplification, from M.L. exemplificationem (nom. exemplificatio), noun of action from pp. stem of exemplificare (see EXEMPLIFY (Cf. exemplify)) …
89illuminate — illuminate, illumine, light, lighten, enlighten, illustrate are comparable when meaning to fill with light or to throw light upon. Illuminate implies the use of a bright light or of something comparable to it in such a way that what is dark is… …
90incarnation — An incarnation is literally a becoming flesh, specifically the Christian doctrine that the second person of the Trinity became a human being (John 1: 14). The central problem of the incarnation is concerned with the fact that God seems to… …
