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paradoxism

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par´a`dox`ism    (păr´å`dǒks`ĭz'm)
n.1.An avant-garde movement in literature, art, and philosophy, based on excessive used of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, oxymorons, and paradoxes.
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For one crucial aspect of Ran as film adaptation is that Kurosawa impregnates its image/sound interaction with Noh's resonant stillness that parallels in its paradoxism what Jan Kott calls King Lear's oxymoronic landscape where "sounds are present by their very absence: the silence is filled with them" (116).
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Through value dissociation, or the dissociation of paradoxism, presidents pay homage to both values at conflict in a crisis, but nonetheless make the value that best supports their position subservient to the other.
The presidency and the promotion of domestic crisis: John Kennedy's ... by Bostdorff, Denise M.; O'Rourke Daniel J. / Presidential Studies Quarterly
 
 
 
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