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Showing 1 to 20 of 712 for “"postmodern"”.
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The Postmodern Improvisor
This thesis represents a revitalization of the thesis form because it has organically blossomed from an integrated consciousness. Instead of the pre-existing thesis form for a Master of Arts Degree in English bending, limiting, and shaping the content, I have shaped the form according to my own …
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Towards a postmodern theatre
… the disastrous collapse of the Babel Tower, the postmodernists endeavor to trace the presence of God, the Author and the only source of a true meaning of life, by means of the fragments only to find out His absence. The absence of the Supreme Authority guarantees an unlimited weaving of …
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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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The postmodern structure of consciousness
… As such, I identify the metaphor of the postmodern structure of consciousness, as the best tool by which to both identify and understand postmodernism in its literary expression. This is done through an analysis of epistemological and ontological questions, considered specifically in the …
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Redefining the self in postmodern cyberspace
Cyberspace is a metaphor for an alternative reality situated in the linear, physical world but yet capable of transcending it. The otherness of cyberspace manifests itself through virtual transient worlds, reconstituting the stable human subject in a radically interactive electronic medium. The …
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Postmodern Alienation: Projecting Worlds/Feigning Subjects
… the fragmentation of the modern subject in postmodernity. On one hand, I roll back the theoretical critique of the subject and, on the other, show that modernism's basic configuration of identity--alienation--has evolved but not vanished. Modeling the subject/object dialectic, my …
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Postmodern View of the Hidden Curriculum
This dissertation will address the hidden curriculum and the impact that it has on the contemporary classroom. In the twentieth century, America is facing a variety of crises, one being the state of the national educational system, and part of this crisis is the public image that the educational …
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Traditional war memorials and postmodern memory
… the present time and to discuss them in terms of postmodernism in order to consider the following question: Can our traditional twentieth-century war memorials be meaningful memory markers for the twenty-first century? Barbara Steinman's Cenotaph (1985-86) acts as a nucleus from which discussion …
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Carnivalized narratives in the postmodern long poem
… under the auspices of the "modern epic." Three postmodern long poems---Kenneth Koch's Seasons on Earth, Edward Dom's Gunslinger, and James Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover---illustrate a dramatic rupture with the texts of modernism by introducing comic situations and multi-voiced …
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Prolegomena to a postmodern theory of law
… 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 to derive the elements of postmodernism from a mathematical …
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Radical Quakerism: a political anthropology of postmodern religion
… and political practices that constitute the ‘postmodern’ religious subject. Drawing on poststructuralist theory, the research combines critical ethnography with discourse-theoretical analysis. It is framed by a conception of politics as a historically-contingent process that orders human …
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Poetry matters: Radical politics in postmodern American poetry
<p>Directly or indirectly, poetry produced in the postmodern era is implicated in the politics of the time. Postmodern American poetry, then, is not reducible to a single poetic mode or to a specific set of stylistic features. In other words, a more comprehensive understanding of postmodern …
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Postmodern humanism and the "exhaustion of easy life"
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The Postmodern Condition and the Commodification of Cuisine
<p>In the postmodern condition and the commodification of cuisine, the theory of Jean Francois Lyotard is used to define the postmodern condition. Using the seven common themes found in postmodernism, a textural analysis of cultural artifacts is undertaken of the equal representation, multiplicity …
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Revisiting girlhood : defining a postmodern/popular feminist culture /
… with regards to social positioning and postmodern political identity. More fundamentally, this thesis questions how popular feminism disables, questions and critiques popular ideologies ill a patriarchal society.
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Education in South Africa : towards a postmodern democracy
… to approved curricular content. Education for a postmodern democracy is sustained by, and sustains, both context-relative knowledge - publicly educed - and an ongoing 'desublimation' of discourse, in the interests of participatory self-critique and renewal.
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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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The feminist postmodern fantastic: sexed, gendered, and sexual identities
… thesis investigates a diverse range of feminist postmodern philosophy, distinguished by its varying 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 …
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