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Critiquing Postmodernism

started to fall out of favour, and the fall of this from popualrity is claimed by Charles Jenks to have marked the end of the mode...

Overview of a Postmodern World

the later part of the 20th century as the world saw two world wars and numerous small wars such as the Korean and the Vietnam wars...

Untitled Film Stills of Cindy Sherman from 1977 to 1980

she is thinking or what has occurred. Surrounded by a halo of light, Shermans face is a "shadowed" mask and it is this melodramati...

Assassination of John F. Kennedy Portrayed in Libra by Don DeLillo

of certain social, political and economic strangulation that decreed all followers must abide by the same doctrines. Post-moderni...

Literary Genres Modernism and Postmodernism

it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was" (Hemingway 13). He is a man lost in a world with no dire...

"The Color Purple" - Gender and Postmodernism

philosophical movement, having been founded in direct opposition to the tenets of modernism (namely, the scientific objectivity an...

Van Gogh, Sherman: Modern, Postmodern

the popular lexicon connotes the current era and whatever is contemporary within that era, and it has been used in this context si...

Fantasy to Postmodern Evolution of Children's Literature

In eight pages the evolution from fantasy to postmodern in the children's literature genre is considered in an examination of The ...

Crying of Lot 49 by Pynchon and Paranoia

In three pages this paper examines protagonist Oedipa Maas' paranoia and argues that it is an understandable reaction given the po...

William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch and Freedom

In 8 pages the ways in which this postmodern novel develops concepts of mental and physical freedom are examined. There are 8 sou...

Feminism and Michel Foucault

In ten pages this paper discusses how Michel Foucault is largely responsible for postmodern and poststructural concepts of women w...

Literature Review on Peasantry

(1983) noted that he is not worried about Marxism as historical materialism is a mode of inquiry as well as a form of revolutionar...

Feminism, The Female Form, and Postmodern Art

This paper addresses the ways in which the female body has been adorned and admired throughout the history of art. The author com...

Christian Boltanski's Art

of Christian Boltanski, who was just beginning to how his group in solo and group exhibition, but many had not. A few of those who...

Watership Down by Richard Adams and Home

In eight pages this paper considers how home is transferred from a physical to philosophical sense in this postmodern novel. Ther...

'Experiment' by Julian Barnes and Postmodern Fiction

In three pages postmodern fiction is defined and then considered within the context of 'Experiment,' a short story by Julian Barne...

Nationalism and Religious Fundamentalism

In seven pages this paper examines how the postmodern landscape has been influenced by images of religious fundamentalism and nati...

Contemporary Symbolic Logic History

Aristotelian philosophy is a good place to start. For Aristotle,...

Depiction of Death in Don DeLillo's White Noise

In five pages this paper analyzes how death is depicted in Don DeLillo's postmodern tale White Noise. One source is listed in the...

Literature and Modernism

In six pages this paper examines 20th century modernist literature in a consideration of such concepts as impressionism, postmoder...

Overview of Postmodern Views on William Shakespeare

In ten pages this paper examines postmodern philosopher Stanley Cavell's views on William Shakespeare's tragic plays Antony and Cl...

Changes in Clothing for Children

In six pages the eras of premodern, modern, and postmodern are discussed in terms of children's clothing changes with a sociologic...

Family Impact Upon Future Generations

In five pages this paper examines the postmodern family in terms of various types and child rearing. Five sources are cited in th...

Bell Hooks' Postmodern Blackness

Cruz" (Reid 24). With such an understanding of Hooks past, we can better understand, perhaps, some of her arguments, as well as he...

Sarte and Descartes Compared

approaches to subjectivity have been characterized by an overwhelming modern anxiety not to be Descartes (206). Descartes pictur...

Philosophy of the Enlightenment and Postmodernism and the Self Concept

that had to be made without conclusively knowing what the correct choices might be (Stack 162). Thus, it can be seen that the Enl...

Postmodern World, Modern, and Classical Philosophy

In eight pages classical and modern philosophers are consulted regarding their thoughts on the postmodern world in order to determ...

Overview of Postmodern Cinema

In twelve pages this paper analyzes postmodern cinema's characteristic elements in a consideration of such films as Pulp Fiction, ...

Comparative Literary Analysis of William Faulkner's Modernism and Toni Morrison's Postmodernism

(without excluding the importance of the past), where everything is not spelled out neatly for the reader. The reader must interp...

A Hero in Print and Throughout Time

the path to order by bringing structure to the process of understanding. The classical hero was one who was brave, honest, pious ...