The Art of Fugue
The third concert of the innovative ‘Chamber
Music Plus’ series presented by the Chamber Music Society of Colombo
along with the Goethe Institute and sponsored by Riksconcertne
(Concerts Norway) was held recently at the Goethe Saal.
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Encounters
Raymond Williams through Sri Lankan eyes
He rejects the idea that language displaces
agency. For him human agency is vitally connected to human
consciousness. He placed great emphasis on intentional human
practices; this move goes counter to the predilections of
contemporary cultural theorists. He was disturbed by what he saw as
a certain passivity that marked structuralist and post-structuralist
writings.
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Cultural scene
Early stages of post-modernism
In the previous column, we dealt with the
seminal developments in the international literary landscape beyond
post-modernism. In this week’s column, we examine, briefly, the
rudimentary stages of postmodernism and the prominent ideas of the
theorists on postmodernism.
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