42 pages 1 hour read

Modris Eksteins

Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

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Essay Topics

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How do prominent individuals play roles in Eksteins’s thesis that spring-like growth and destruction were crucial features of modernity?

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What is the Gesamtkunstwerk or total work of art and how does it play out in the art and war of the modern period?

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Describe the German and British views of modernity. According to Eksteins, why were these views in conflict with one another?

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