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Web Pages on Modernism
By Richard Pearce, Professor of English, Wheaton College, Norton, MA.

History of Psychology Web Site.
A gateway for teachers and students to over 1000 World Wide Web resources related to the history of psychology.
 

Voice of the Shuttle  
University of California, Santa Barbara, English Department.
Search for authors and movements by keyword.

What is Dada?
Web Museum, Paris

What is Surrealism?
Web Museum, Paris

 

Information on Individual Dadaists
The University of Iowa Libraries

Documents of Dada and Surrealism
By the Art Institute of Chicago

Surrealist and Modern Painters Online

Jean Arp
Marcel Duchamp
Francis Picabia
Max Ernst
Rene Magritte
Salvador Dali
M.C. Escher
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso

Dada and Surrealism - Illustrations
By J. Butler of the University of Alabama, Telecommunication and Film Department
Modernist Composers

American Modernism Seen & Heard

Classical Net - Definition - Modern Era

Music History 102: The Twentieth Century
Composers, major styles and developments, illustrations, and Real Audio RAM sound
files from the Internet Public Library.


Twentieth Century Music Links
Charles K. Moss

 

Music Files

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Art of the States
Since 1993, Art of the States has been expanding audiences for United States-based composers and performers through its international radio music distribution service.

 

Modernist Composers

Grove Music Online
You will find articles on

Antheil, George
Bartók, Béla
Bauer, Marion Eugénie
Berg, Alban
Cowell, Henry

Crawford, Ruth
Debussy, Claude
Gideon, Miriam
Ives, Charles
Leibowitz, René
Les Six
Ornstein, Leo
Rudhyar, Dane
Ruggles, Carl
Russell, Bill Jazz
Satie, Erik
Schoenberg, Arnold
Scriabin, Alexander Nikolayevich
Shapey, Ralph
Sibelius, Jean
Varčse, Edgard
Webern, Anton




 

Modernist Composers

George Antheil
Bela Bartok
Alban  Berg
Marion Bauer
Marion Bauer
Henry Cowell
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Claude Debussy

 

 

Modernist Composers

Miriam Gideon
Charles Ives
Springtime in Paris: Les Six
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Leo Ornstein
Modernist Composers

Erik Satie (1866-1925)  In French
Arnold Schoenberg
Jean Sibelius
Varese, Edgard
Anton Webern

 

 Sir James Frazer

Biography and List of Works

Sigmund Freud

From Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud, "The Dream of the Botanical Monograph”

Personality Theories 
Web site by George Boeree, professor in the Psychology Department at Shippensburg University.

Siegmund Freud, Conflict and Culture
Examines Freud's life and his key ideas and their effect upon the twentieth century.

The Future of an Illusion - Civilization and its Discontent
Click on "Browse the Abstracts." Choose Volume 21.
Digital version of Abstracts of the Standard Edition of the Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud by The New York Freudian Society.

 

Friedrich Nietzsche

Chronicle of Nietzsche’s Life

Online Articles and Reviews on Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals
A hypertext reading

ThePerspectives of Nietzsche

The Nietzsche Channel
Biography and links to Nietzsche's texts.  

 

 

Writings by Nietzsche

The Antichrist
Beyond Good and Evil
The Birth of Tragedy
Twilight of the Idols
On the Genealogy of Morals
On the Use and Abuse of History for Life
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Human, All Too Human
The Dawn

 

Andre Breton

What is Surrealism?
A lecture given in Brussels on 1st June 1934 at a public meeting organized by the Belgian Surrealists, and issued as a pamphlet immediately afterwards.

Biography and list of works

Charles Darwin

Charles R. Darwin (1809-1882): Potential Founding Father of Modernism?
Slide presentation by Charlie Urbanowicz, California State University.

The Origin of Species
Full text

Web Sites about Evolution
Compiled and maintained by Klaus-Peter Kelber, Mineralogisches Institut, Universität Würzburg.

 

The Online Books Page

Sigmund Freud
Karl Marx
Friedrich Nietzsche
Charles
Darwin
Sir James Frazer

 

Language Links

Punctuation, Grammar, and Related Matters

Common Errors in English

Guide to Grammar and Style

Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples

Precision in Writing

 

Encyclopedias

The following encyclopedias will give you concise information about  influential writers and thinkers.

Encarta Homepage

Grolier Online