More than a mere place of residence and relaxation, the Dickinson homestead in Amherst, Massachusetts — the actual preserved site of which was provided to Davies for the film's few exteriors — serves as an arena for around - the - clock banter on such matters as the nature and limits of Christian piety, the literature and art of the day, local gossip, and general discourses around the question of how to lead a dignified life. (slantmagazine.com)
So, the general discourse on Globalization has fundamental flaws, that will see its impetus diminish. (carnegieendowment.org)
But the term «postmodernism» became current outside this general discourse, within artistic and literary criticism, and in this other more specialized discourse, the «modernism» to which «post -» was prefixed has meant the sensibility that emerged in the arts around the turn of the present century, in deliberate rejection of the world shaped by Enlightenment and Romanticism, i.e., of the world otherwise called «modern.» (firstthings.com)