Essays Tagged: "Postmodernism"
Postmodernism; Does It Apply? Discusses postmodernism; what it is and reflects whether Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues can be considered postmodern.
Postmodernism; Does It Apply?The definition for postmodernism is not an easy one to reach. Partly be ... as from film, to clothing, to cuisine, and literary, philosophical, theological, and other theories.Postmodernism's intent is to get one to think of things in a new way--to explore the world outside t ... irony, parody, pastiche, irreverence, and generic conventions, all of which are characteristics of postmodernism (Stevens).One author often spoken of as being postmodern is Sherman Alexie. Examining ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Jose Bedia's "Desde que te fuistes.. tu no te imaginas."
d creating art that was more unique and individual. This cultural example is part of what is called Postmodernism.The generation of Cuban artists who started this was called the "first generation arti ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art
Postmodernism and the works of Rosaldo, Dumont, and Derrida describing the theory of postmodernism in cultural change.
a result of this, what emerged was a new focus on 'development' and 'modernization' in the form of postmodernism. In these changing times, anthropology has come into contact with a variety of evolvin ... eflect the social, cultural and political changes that are occurring in study of anthropology today.Postmodernism, as theoretical school of thought, is an intellectual movement that promotes itself as ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology
A report on several of Vonnegut's works.
nd college writing courses, and he is now often considered an early figure in the movement known as postmodernism. Postmodern writers encompass a number of varying techniques that have only recently b ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Examine the claim that cities have recently entered a "postmodern" stage in their development
Anthony Giddens defines postmodernism as "the belief that society is no longer governed by history or progress." He sees pos ... thetic emphasis that can be related to the passing of "modernity and modernism to postmodernity and postmodernism" (Featherstone, 1991).Various factors lead to the emergence of the Postmodernist movem ... -Chakraborty, 2001) to pave the way for the city wide modernist expansion. Indeed, the move towards postmodernism came with the "aestheticization of everyday life and mass consumer culture." (Feathers ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Style of Cat 2s Cradle
is weak, purposeless and feels alienated from his society. In this respect, with the advantages of postmodernism, in other words with absolute freedom to create, in Cat's Cradle, Vonnegut portraits t ... enikker, or in other words the creation of man.In conclusion, Kurt Vonnegut, with the advantages of postmodernism, in Cat's Cradle, portraits the post-II.W.W. America society in a humourous way in spi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Postmodernism and Joyce Carol Oates
On PostmodernismFor my short essay I will focus on a postmodern reading of Joyce Carol Oates, "How I Co ... e Detroit House of Corrections and Began My Life Over Again." More precisely, as a postmodern text. Postmodernism refers to texts that reject coherence in a narrative, objective truth, and show doubts ... have a split conscious, that of their internal monologue and external monologue.The next aspect of postmodernism I will discuss is the metanarrative. A metanarrative is a story in which it is conscio ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
From Enlightenment to Postmodernism
From Enlightenment to Postmodernism.The emergence of feminist theory, psychoanalysis, and postmodern philosophy served as ... analysis, and postmodern philosophy served as catalyst for the transition from the Enlightenment to Postmodernism. The eighteenth century philosophical, political and scientific thought in search for ... paring the "lumiers"' arguments to the postmodern ones and analyzing the changes, the definition of postmodernism is necessary for clarity matters. The term postmodernism was introduced into a philoso ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Contemporary Art with a Message
e vision, but they have fought their own personal battles to get their message out to the public.If Postmodernism raises low art to the level of high art, it also allows folks who control the media to ...
Subjects: Art Essays
Pandoras Box: Have Postmodern Artists Gone too Far?
sion and demanded exacting technical skill. Recently, however, art has taken on a new form known as postmodernism which, in too many instances, has served as little more than shock aesthetics - outrag ... ss in Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Rembrandt, and Vermeer, and to suggest that the influence of postmodernism has altogether put the Arts in a bad way would be wrong. What can be said for sure is ...
Subjects: Art Essays
Pandoras Box: Have Postmodern Artists Gone too Far?
sion and demanded exacting technical skill. Recently, however, art has taken on a new form known as postmodernism which, in too many instances, has served as little more than shock aesthetics - outrag ... ss in Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Rembrandt, and Vermeer, and to suggest that the influence of postmodernism has altogether put the Arts in a bad way would be wrong. What can be said for sure is ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology
Postmodern Graphic Designer: Paula Scher
As stated by Jonathan M. Woodham, postmodernism "came to be seen as a term which usefully embraced those characteristics - such as ecl ... tion. Through this rejection, characteristics such as Woodham describes are promoted and encouraged.Postmodernism attacks the perceived elitist approaches of modernism and seeks to establish a greater ... aula Scher, a graphic designer from Philadelphia whose works are exemplar of the characteristics of postmodernism as outlined by Woodham. In particular, her poster designs for the New York Public Thea ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Design Arts
Media Studies: Examine the changes in mass media and/or popular culture from the postmodern perspective.
To understand the changes in popular culture from the postmodern perspective, the concept of postmodernism must first be understood. The question of what postmodernism is cannot be easily answe ... self is not a topic that can be easily pinned down.A large number of theorists have tried to define postmodernism, with varied success. Hebdige, (1998) said that "it becomes more and more difficult as ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media
Is Giddens' concept of 'reflexivity' a form of 'wish fulfillment'?
xistence echoes many of the ideas of the German sociologist Ulrich Beck. Like Beck, Giddens rejects postmodernism claiming that postmodernism gets it wrong on three counts: - ‘it neglects the ins ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
The Evolution Of Postmodernism
The change from modernism to postmodernism was a direct result in the changes in society. Events such as World War I, World War I ... were trying to capture the uneasiness that the world was feeling in their writing. The switches to postmodernism writing made things become unclear. People begin to doubt and challenge the morals and ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Postmodernism And Cyberpunk
eristics that highlight the close relationship of the literary trends they belong to (Cyberpunk and Postmodernism.) OUTLINE 1. DESCRIPTION OF POSTMODERNISM 1.1 Main characteristics.1.2 How "The Undefe ... hip of both literary trends shown by the similarity of both shortstories.) THE RELATOINSHIP BETWEEN POSTMODERNISM AND CYBERPUNK (A COMPARISON OF "BURNING CHROME" AND THE "UNDEFEATED") "Burning Chrome" ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Is Postmodernism a continuation or critique of Mod
Is Postmodernism a continuation or critique of Modernism ? Postmodernism can be seen as both a continua ... nd critique of modernism. The difficulty in presiding between a continuation and a critique is that postmodernism , as with modernism, has a scope wider than the arts alone. To answer the question acc ... nsider important factors such as culture and historical periodising amongst a whole host of things. Postmodernism is really up for debate here if we breakdown the question. I will give a general outli ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
Arcadia as a postmodern text
typically postmodern play by Tom Stoppard exemplifies this movement through use of the features of postmodernism and by it?s ambiguous ending.Some of the features used in the play which demonstrate t ... nscription in the Couch of Eros and the Picadilly Recreation. Intertextuality is a major element of postmodernism and Stoppard uses this feature heavily, as he appropriates from texts by Newton, Byron ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Postmodern Feminism
Postmodern Feminism and Postmodernism in general are branches in social theory that are concerned with the development and t ... rld and specifically international relation.Giving first an overview of main concepts that surround postmodernism and postmodern feminism composes my research. Then a detailed analysis of Foucault?s i ... ize a consistency around that theory.1.John McGown offers a useful introduction to the emergence of postmodernism. Many authors find it difficult to give a definite and precise definition of post mode ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Explain how contemporary artists challenge ideas about art
e, allowing no possibility for any familiar connection with the individuals in the picture.’[1]Postmodernism is a contemporary form of art, it challenges traditional and conventional art forms, c ... the audience. Originating in the 1960’s, from a change in historical and social value systems, Postmodernism is an experimental movement in which artists use a variety of mediums in order to conv ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists