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Showing 1 to 20 of 261 for “"postmodernism"”.
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Muriel Spark's postmodernism
This study explores the shifting notions of postmodernism developed through Muriel Spark’s fiction, and thereby clarifies this artist’s own postmodernism. I use Jean-François Lyotard’s definition of the notion in his The Postmodern Condition (1979), that there is no grand narrative, as my starting …
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Studies in metafiction and postmodernism
Most studies of American metafiction tend to subsume that movement within the larger category of a self reflexive narrative tradition beginning with Lawrence Sterne and fluidly developing through the modernist experimentation of Joyce, Woolf, and Faulkner to the more recent subversion of modernist …
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Beyond postmodernism: London fiction at the millennium
… some way be regarded as occupying a space beyond postmodernism. It explores how a selection of contemporary London novels can be considered as "second-wave" or "post-postmodern" in light of their borrowing more from mainstream and classical genres as opposed to formally experimental avant-garde …
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Navigating Postmodernism & Critical Theory in Family Therapy
… two distinct stances.</p> <p>Keywords: postmodernism, critical theory, collaborative activism, social justice</p>
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Postmodernism and the fall of the Berlin Wall: the role of postmodernism in Berlin’s aesthetic before and after 1989
… on Berlin’s reunification an account of postmodernism’s role within the regenerating city.
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Videocentric criticism, postmodernism and the deconstruction of television
This research offers an alternative method to the study of visual narrative. It criticizes Western society's videocentrism, or centering of television as the predominant medium of communicating to mass society. This method is known as videocentric criticism; Chapter one assesses the modern and …
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Paulo Coelho: Transnational Literature, Popular Culture, and Postmodernism
… between these narratives and issues such as postmodernism, globalization, the convergence culture, mass self-communication, and others. </p> <p>This dissertation argues that the production, circulation, and consumption of Paulo Coelho novels constitute cultural processes that are more complex …
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Eclecticism, postmodernism, subversion: new perspectives on English experimental music
… pluralism in the arts is a direct result of postmodernism. The social effects of postmodernism and their influence on the arts are documented, leading to the conclusion that all instances of eclecticism in contemporary art and music could be categorised as postmodernist in some measure. The …
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Emotions and Elementary School Science Teaching: Postmodernism in Practice
This work raises important questions that go beyond the meaning and interpretation of teachers' emotions: How can teachers' emotions become a legitimate topic in (science) education as well as in efforts for science curricular reform? Further, how can educational institutions (universities and …
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Tacking against postmodernism : Gloucester's working port holds it course
Gloucester, Massachusetts has long been regarded as the quintessential working port in the Northeast and the home of commercial fishing in America for several hundred years. Today, Gloucester's working port is threatened by dwindling fish stocks, strict land-use regulations and development …
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Gothic times : feminism and postmodernism in the novels of Angela Carter.
The problematic relationship between feminism and postmodernism manifests itself, in contemporary fiction by women, as a conflict between political and aesthetic practices which is ultimately waged upon the ground of subjectivity. Angela Carter's novels offer an extended exploration of subjectivity …
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Cold War New York: Postmodernism, Lyricism, And Queer Aesthetics In 1970s New York Poetry
… approach to writing defines the early forms of postmodernism. Chapter 2 investigates the feminist poetics of Waldman and her engagement with performance and politics as a way to offer a new kind of poetics intent on plurality. The conclusion of this thesis looks at the notion of democracy and …
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<em>On the Road</em> from Melville to Postmodernism: The Case for Kerouac's Canonization.
<p>With the publication of <em>On the Road</em> in 1957, Jack Kerouac became a cultural phenomenon. Crowned the "King" of the Beat Generation, Kerouac embodied the restlessness of Cold War-era America. What no one realized at the time, however, was that the movement that he supposedly led went …
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The crisis of leftist urban theory in postmodernism : the case of the L.A. 'School'
… through the advent of post-structuralism and postmodernism into the present. It is not an attempt to portray the whole history of social theory in this period but instead it is an investigation into the ways a particular group of leftist scholars approach a city having selected from this …
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Blurring the lines : postmodernism and the use of tradition in the works of Yu Hua
The modern Chinese writer Yu Hua (1960-) uses and incorporates a wide variety of arguably postmodernist techniques and themes in his fiction. There are, however, parallels between these themes and techniques and various aspects of pre-modern Chinese literature and philosophy. Additionally, in an at …
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A Joycean Exegesis of "The Large Glass": Homeric Traces in the Postmodernism of Marcel Duchamp
This thesis examines Marcel Duchamp’s "The Large Glass" in relation to Homer’s "Odyssey" and by extension to James Joyce’s "Ulysses." It focuses on the idea that Duchamp may have had in mind Penelope and her Suitors when he was creating the Bride and her Bachelors. The aim of the thesis is …
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