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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"postmodernist"”.
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Viewing postmodernist television : Moonlighting, Twin Peaks and The Simpsons
… texts, embodies the multi-tiered allusiveness of postmodernist texts. It also illustrates the cult precept that quotation can be appreciated even when its source is not recognized. Cult theorises viewership as active yet ambivalent (Eco, 1988, 454). The initial chapter delineates parameters in …
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Reading Ruth : towards a postmodernist, literary and womanist analysis
This dissertation examines the book of Ruth from a postmodemist, literary and womanist perspective. The main methodology is postmodemist literary criticism, but it employs intertextual and autobiographical approaches as well. Chapter 1 is an exploration of the plot of Ruth and reveals that in order …
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Nomina nuda tenemus: Postmodernist Method in Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire
Vladimír Nabokov je nepochybně jedním z nejvýznamnějších autorů postmoderny. Tato bakalářská práce si klade za cíl analyzovat metodu, kterou užívá v Bledém ohni a díky níž je tento román možné nazvat postmoderním dílem. Jeho práce s textem způsobuje, že Bledý oheň představuje typický příklad …
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Postmodernist Pedagogy's Effect on Doctoral Level Political Theory Instruction and Curriculum
Among the 123 political science programs listed by the American Political Science Association that grant Ph.D.s in political science, only seven require every student to complete some sort of political theory or philosophy course. Eighty-one offer students the opportunity to select political theory …
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Blurring the lines : postmodernism and the use of tradition in the works of Yu Hua
… 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 times postmodernist manner, Yu Hua …
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Recondite Reading: William Gaddis's Carpenter's Gothic and the Difficulties of Late Modernism
… of a particular text. Next, three theorists of postmodernist literature, John Barth, Linda Hutcheon, and Brian McHale, are used to examine Gaddis's novel in terms of periodization. Barth's "Literature of Replenishment" differentiates between late modernist and postmodernist texts. Hutcheon's …
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Creating absence to acknowledge presence : relational subjectivity and postmodernism in Carol Shields’s 'The Stone Diaries'
This paper explores the relationship between postmodernist discourses and feminist discourses, asking, firstly, whether or not feminist political action is possible within a postmodernist theoretical climate that scrutinizes the construction of universalizing group identities, and, secondly, how …
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Gothic times : feminism and postmodernism in the novels of Angela Carter.
… - which characterises contemporary feminist and postmodernist philosophy. This thesis offers a series of readings of Carter's novels which traces their engagement with particular aspects of the theorisation of subjectivity. It attempts to present Carter's novels as examples of how the aesthetic …
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Poësie en die politiek van die postmodernisme : 'n ondersoek na die postmodernistiese poësie van Wilma Stockenström
This dissertation comprises a study of the postmodernist tendencies in Wilma stockenstrom's poetry text Die heengaanrefrein (1989). It is argued that the postmodernist text carries with it certain political implications, among which are an interrogation of the way in which history is represented, …
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Modernist expert to postmodernist innovative cultural hermaneutist : a journey in adult education : a thesis submitted to Massey University (Wellington) in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education (Adult Education)
The repercussions of the turbulent years of the greater part of the twentieth century have been responsible for the demise of both the Enlightenment project and the modern period which was its bearer. This modern period was characterised by legitimising grand metanarratives (récits) that were built …
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Michael Cunningham's Reading of Mrs Dalloway
… 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 and analysis in both Mrs Dalloway …
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Embracing incoherence: perspectives on the performance of Almeida Prado's fourteen nocturnes
… of the composer's output and musical philosophy, postmodernist ideology, comparison of currently available scores of the fourteen Nocturnes, and analysis of the composer's writing and use of borrowed material, this study evaluates the intersection between these categories to provide examples of a …
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We too shall be mothers : her story, our story, history: feminism and postmodernism in the contemporary historical novel
… argues that WTSBM can be classified as a 'postmodernist, revisionist, historical novel', which can be positioned alongside other postmodernist, historical literature. Third, the exegesis argues that WTSBM can be located within contemporary issues of feminist politics, particularly issues of …
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Reclaimed territory : the plays of John McGrath and the 7:84 theatre company considered as a continuum of twentieth-century theories concerning theatrical form
… modes is then extended to include the postmodernist resistance to both realism and modernism, seeking precisely where and how McGrath's theatre supports this opposition. Following a critical dissection of representative texts, the conclusion attempts to establish their validity as …
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Theorizing the anti-avant-garde : invocations of phenomenology in architectural discourse, 1945-1989
… at the crux of the 1970s shift from modernist to postmodernist thinking in architecture. I support this thesis through critical analyses of the work of Ernesto Rogers, Charles Moore, Christian Norberg-Schulz, and Kenneth Frampton, who are largely credited with introducing phenomenology to …
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Michael Tippett's Philosophy of Musical and Eschatological Time and Its Implications for Christian Theology
… argues for the capability of modernist and postmodernist music through the use of various compositional approaches to musical time to convey a robust, biblical understanding of God’s temporality, i.e., the mysterious unity of time and eternity that is ultimately achieved in and through Jesus …
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Roles Recast: Eleanor Antin and the 1970s
… canonical by the late 1970s in art informed by postmodernist feminism, notably by artists associated with the "Pictures" generation. By arguing that San Diego was a key site from which art informed by postmodernist feminism emerged, I challenge the geographic binary that associates essentialist …
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Masculinity in Crisis? A study on the Threat to Masculine Identities through Unemployment
… society is a recent and key focus of postmodernist theorising and empirical research. Beck suggests that a fragmentation in traditional institutions of reproduction like the family and work has obscured social roles. The study of men and masculinities has been one of the most vigorous …
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