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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Postmodern Theory"”.
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Max Weber and postmodern theory
… It is held that the work of these three 'postmodern' theorists develops Weber's account of the rationalisation of the modern world, even if this is rarely, if ever, acknowledged. On this basis, the thesis analyses the strategies employed by Lyotard, Foucault, and Baudrillard to transgress …
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Prolegomena to a postmodern theory of law
… to critical perspectives. No existing legal theory accomplishes these tasks. This thesis asserts that postmodernism overcomes current difficulties in constructing an adequate model of legal reasoning. My methodology is to apply results from the sciences of chaos and complex adaptive systems …
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Getting Over the Self: The Decentered Subject and Contemporary Political Theory
… of one's position on what has come to be called postmodern theory, there is no denying that this theoretical perspective is challenging the legitimacy of many of the traditional concepts of political and social theory. Foremost among these challenges is the opposition that postmodern theory pose …
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COUNTER-PROPAGANDA EDUCATION: A CRITICAL POSTMODERN PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
… the power structure of society. A critical postmodern philosophy of education which synthesized critical and postmodern philosophies of education would emphasize epistemological skepticism, counter-propaganda knowledge construction and social transformation (Aronowitz & Giroux, p.22). In …
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Postmodern Feminist Pedagogy in a First-Year Writing Class
… societal change. What contributions can feminist theory and postmodern theory make to the field of college composition? If specific elements of such theorizing are infused into a first year writing class, what effects, if any, will be observed in the teacher and in the students? These are the …
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Postmodernism and the fall of the Berlin Wall: the role of postmodernism in Berlin’s aesthetic before and after 1989
This thesis takes as its focus the impact of postmodern critical theory on the vanishing Berlin Wall and on the work of selected German artists working before, during and after the fall of the Wall. It discusses the Wall itself as a sign that has been subjected to various discursive translations: …
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Storytelling, Myth, and the Dreams Therein: A Critical Analysis of the Intertextuality of Christianity, Capitalism, and Americanism
… of Christianity and Americanism, are queer theory, postmodern theory, and critical race theory, thereby employing theoretical perspectives that are not strictly associated with benefitting examinations of Christianity or Americanism, which is to say that these perspectives can broaden our …
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Unicorns Are Not Real and Neither Are You: Peter S. Beagle's Postmodern Fairy Tale
… in the context of fairy tale/mythic studies and postmodern theory—specifically through the critical lenses of Bruno Bettelheim, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Barth, and Brian McHale. By simultaneously deconstructing and following fairy tale conventions/tropes, <em>The Last Unicorn</em> offers its reader a …
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La trilogia de jorge volpi como ventana sitiada en la posmodernidad
… dissertation examines from the perspective of postmodern theory, the ideological and formal aspects of Jorge Volpi's trilogy of the twentieth century: En busca de Klingsor (In Search of Klingsor), El fin de la locura (The End of Madness), and No será la tierra (Season of Ash). Employing the …
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The Concept of Self-reflexive Intertextuality in the Works of Umberto Eco
… philosophic, and historical. Notwithstanding the postmodern ideology of the irrelevance of the author (in terms of identity and intentionality) to a text’s interpretation, Eco’s novels offer another level of reading and interpreting that includes the author’s own personal reading experiences. In …
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The postmodern debate and the search for emancipation : rationality, the self and politics in the thought of Foucault, Derrida, Rorty and MacIntyre
The postmodern philosophical project, which aims to undermine the universalistic, metanarrational and transcendental aspects of traditional Western thought and to bring about an awareness of 'otherness' through deconstruction, has been dismissed out of hand by some theorists. This thesis aims to …
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From the demise of theory to its resurgence. A retrospective on the postmodern turn to rethink the 'desire for narrative' and the sublime untimeliness of emancipation
Cultural Marxist Theory, commonly known as theory, enjoyed a moment of extraordinary success in the 1970s, when the works of leading post-war French philosophers were published in English. After relocating to Anglophone academia, however, theory disavowed its original concerns and lost its ambition …
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Dialectical Metafiction and the Self-Conscious Subject of American Modernism
… those philosophical assumptions of contemporary postmodern theory by locating them within the continuum of capitalist ideology.</p> <p>We need an anti-humanist, dialectical methodology that can escape the subjective interpretive codes and practices of liberal humanism to write a more objective …
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Rhetorical Agency And Survivance: American Indians In College Composition
… <p>The concept of multiple subjectivities in postmodern theory provides one way for students to increase their awareness of the power they already have with language. In addition, students can expand their ability to use writing as a means of agency by learning new rhetorical strategies. By …
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Streifzüge durch eine "fremde" Welt : untersuchung ausgewählter schriftlicher Zeugnisse deutscher Reisender im südlichen Afrika im 19. Jahrhundert unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der kulturellen Fremderfahrung : eine literaturwissenschaftliche Untersuchung
… are of main interest in this thesis. The postmodern theory of the "colonial discourse" was used as an analysing method in order to demonstrate that each encouter with the Other produces a different kind of response from the traveller in its own special environment.
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A critical postmodern response to multiculturalism in popular culture
… While some theorists have used elements of postmodern theory to develop a “resistance multiculturalism” sensitive to shifting social meanings and floating racial signifiers (see McLaren, 1994), they have rarely explored the political possibilities of “ludic postmodernism” (parody, pastiche, …
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Hauntings: Juliet's Elegy for Past in Alice Munro's Chance, Soon and Silence
… and understanding of self. In doing so, I apply postmodern theory, including the work of Andreas Huyssen and Avery Gordon, to Munro’s stories. I’ve also incorporated studies of writing craft by Charles Baxter, Debra Spark and Janet Burroway, and relied on the critical work of Louise MacKendrick, …
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Hauntings: Juliet's Elegy for Past in Alice Munro's Chance, Soon and Silence
… and understanding of self. In doing so, I apply postmodern theory, including the work of Andreas Huyssen and Avery Gordon, to Munro’s stories. I’ve also incorporated studies of writing craft by Charles Baxter, Debra Spark and Janet Burroway, and relied on the critical work of Louise MacKendrick, …
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The cosmic tantrum
… result of two years of research in Postcolonial Theory, Cultural Studies, and scholarship on the artistic and philosophical systems of what is known as the Black Atlantic. I provide an explanation of the theoretical underpinnings of the creative work in the form of a possible theory of culture, …
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Writing to Shake the World: The Historical Avant-Garde, Political Postmodernism and the Post-Avant-Garde
… discussions of Modernism, the Avant-Garde, and Postmodernism. Drawing on Andreas Huyssen's work on the relationship between Modernism, mass culture and Postmodernism, I begin by defining ""political postmodernism"" as a critical term that enables a productive tension between avant-garde artist …
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