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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Modernism and Postmodernism"”.
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The works of Cy Twombly : non-linear language and non-linear consciousness
… Twombly's (1928-) position in the discourses of Modernism and Postmodernism. As Twombly has been viewed as an 'inimitable' and independent artist, it is necessary to question the extent to which his works adhere to, or transgress, the terminologically restrictive monolithic metalanguages of late …
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Michael Cunningham's Reading of Mrs Dalloway
… Cunningham's novel The Hours in the context of postmodernism. As The Hours is a postmodernist interpretation of Mrs Dalloway, the thesis also discusses Virginia Woolfs modernist approach in order to compare it with Cunningham's postmodernist position. I have adopted the methods of close reading …
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The feminist postmodern fantastic: sexed, gendered, and sexual identities
… rearticulation of the relationship between modernism and postmodernism and feminism’s own position vis-à-vis that debate. Drawing on postmodernism’s primary tenet that substantive, binary identity categories comprise discursive, performative constructs, feminist postmodernism theorises a …
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Forget Jerusalem: William Faulkner's Hyperreal Novel
This paper explores the relationality between Modernism and Postmodernism as well as between literature and theory by examining the works of two writers: master novelist William Faulkner, and high priest of Postmodernism, Jean Baudrillard. Specifically, this paper examines Faulkner's eleventh …
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Lutheran homiletics and Francophone African contexts : how to connect Lutheran orthodoxy with African culture
… together to make Christian preaching effective and authentic. This thesis examines the current state of homiletical practice and formation in Francophone African Lutheran church bodies, with the goal of formulating a theoretical framework for practice that is both orthodox Lutheran and …
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Forays into the attic: The postcolonial fiction of Jean Rhys and J. M. Coetzee
… dissertation examines the writing of Jean Rhys and J. M. Coetzee and its postcolonial interventions in modernism and postmodernism. Chapter I, ""The Postcolonial Sensibilities of the Native Alien,"" focuses on current postcolonial theoretical debates on resistance and authenticity; it then …
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Ghost Dance in 31 Movements
A kind of poetry that tries to understand contemporary social and philosophical issues as much as behaviors by rewriting in a poetic language the video artwork of some of the main representatives of modernism and postmodernism. Such poetry is deprived of confessional hues, any personal reference …
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“Whispers Out of Time”: Memorializing (Self-) Portraits in the Work of John Berryman, John Ashbery, Anne Carson, and Nan Goldin
… four distinct post-WWII North American writers and artists—the poet John Berryman, the poet John Ashbery, the classicist and writer Anne Carson, and the photographer Nan Goldin—who expanded traditional definitions and practices of portraiture. Their works—<em>The Dream Songs</em>, “Self-Portrait …
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An Archeology of Postmodern Architecture: A Reading of Charles Jencks' work
A powerful sense of discontinuity and rupture, a simultaneity of theory and practice as well as a critique of bourgeois art forms are some of the common features that modern and postmodern discourses share. Despite the similarities between the two movements, they tend to be portrayed and defined in …
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Roles Recast: Eleanor Antin and the 1970s
"Roles Recast: Eleanor Antin and the 1970s" provides the first book-length study devoted to Eleanor Antin (b. 1935), and positions her practice as a pivotal point between late modernism and postmodernism in American art. The project focuses on Antin's work from 1971 to 1977, made while the artist …
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Choreographing postcolonial identities in Britain: Cultural policies and the politics of performance, 1983-2008
… by postcolonial dance artists is often misread and exoticised by critics, funders and audiences. Yet the works produced have a disruptive effect and are products and clear indications of the sometimes oppressive processes that create cultural representation and identities. These postcolonial …
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Intertextuality in the Fiction of Cormac McCarthy
<p>The moral and aesthetic complexity of Cormac McCarthy's fiction demands sophisticated theoretical reading paradigms. Intertextuality informed by poststructuralism is a theoretical approach that enables one to read the moral and aesthetic elements of McCarthy's work in productive ways. McCarthy's …
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The Letters of Ronald Johnson and Jonathan Williams: Edited, with a biographical and critical introduction by Devin King
… two post-war American poets, Jonathan Williams and Ronald Johnson. Attached to the thesis is an appendix: the first major edition of 217 of the letters, prepared with footnotes and a gloss. Through analysis of the letters, I argue that Williams and Johnson’s collaborative attention to Black …
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Metamodern Satire in Contemporary American Literature and Television
… argued that the postmodern moment has passed, and what developed in its wake must be given a distinct term of its own. Answering this call, Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker posited metamodernism, a movement that, at its heart, is the negotiation between the conflicting objectives of …
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The Familiar Foreign Country: Reading Mexico in Cormac McCarthy, Jack Kerouac, and Katherine Anne Porter
… American authors-Cormac McCarthy, Jack Kerouac, and Katherine Anne Porter-in order to analyze representations of Otherness in modernism and postmodernism. I seek to destabilize the dividing line between these periods as well as to show how representation in postmodernity has become more …
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Individualism in the Novels of Nuruddin Farah
… Farah's novels in the context of the historical and philosophical development of modern identity in the societies of the North-Atlantic. It relies primarily on the analysis of philosopher, Charles Taylor, who proposes that individualism makes modern identity an historically unprecedented mode of …
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Tussen mentors en minnaars: ʼn Voorstel vir ʼn nuwe leesmodel vir die lees van werke deur skrywers soos Peter Blum en lna Rousseau, waar ʼn persoonlike verhouding tussen die skrywers bestaan het
… personal relationships between certain writers and seeks to understand the nature of their relationship and the resulting influence on their work. The question of intellectual property rights is also raised - when two writers live together and discuss their ideas with one another, who owns the …
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Connectivity and Contemporaneity in Ali Smith’s Oeuvre: A Critical Study
… across her experimentation with literary forms and genres, including: novels, short stories, children’s literature, lectures, essays and nonfiction, prefaces and introductions, playscripts, poetry, and hybrid literary-critical works. By attending to both specific and diachronic concerns of …
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Artistic practices & democratic politics: towards the markers of uncertainty: from counter-hegemonic positions to plural hegemonies
Can artistic and cultural practices play a critical role in societies in which criticisms are reflexively absorbed and immobilised by the prevailing hegemony? And, if yes, what kind of political order can they aspire to, given the ‘post-utopian’ nature of the human condition? How do we approach the …