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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...

Science Fiction Genre and Postmodern Individuals

made up of many windows and RL is only one of them"(Turkle 1995). What she uncovered, however, has many alarmed. Have we traded ou...

Postmodernism and Ariane Mnouschkine and Pina Bausch

discontinuity and fragmentation, as well as by an overall destructured and decentered subject (University of Colorado). H...

Postmodernism and Great Britain

influences as well as reflects the society in which it manifests. Here we may see a post-modern attitude. The influence of many ot...

Art, Art Criticism, and Postmodern Culture

all embodied become the casualties of another direction, only to be broken apart and redeveloped by way of postmodernistic composi...

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 ...

Postmodern Deconstructionist Architecture

Russian constructivist forms and by Derridean deconstruction" (Ganim 364). Basically, the philosophy behind the concept of decons...

Modern and Postmodern Sociology Issues

expressed in a direct cause and effect relationship. Also, the function need not be positive or nurturing. Certainly, Durkheim w...

Postmodernism and Feminist Therapy

has always been the primary quest of the feminist critical theory to assess the sometimes-strained yet always misunderstood relati...

Lorna Simpson's Impact on Postmodern Feminist Art

depictions of Black women that hide their face, their central visual identity. This is the basis through which Simpson creates a ...

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...

Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips

vessel. The children are Nash, Martha and Travis, and their stories form the basis for the three major divisions in the text. The ...

Social Commentary and Postmodern TV

In five pages this paper discusses postmodern television within the contexts of social commentary and parody. Five sources are ci...

Text Function of Artwork

Art. The Postmodern artists discussed will be Cindy Sherman and Philip Pearlstein. Post-modernism According to Strickland (1992...

3 Postmodern Works Analyzed

In six pages this research paper compares how postmodern perspectives manifest themselves in director Peter Greenaway's film The C...

Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas

human mind contributed to the displacement of Christianity several centuries later from its central position in the formation of ...

Systems in White Noise by Don DeLillo

the book choose to use the information with which they are being bombarded. Each system takes on, in effect, its own miniature mu...

Professions and Disciplines by Daniel Rossides

deals with knowledge about how knowledge itself develops. From this starting point, Rossides goes on to discuss a brief history of...

Popular Culture and Postmodernism

the nineteenth century, or so, the art world seemed to go into a slump. Quite like writers block, this slump saw a lull in the art...

Humanist v. Postmodern Views on Sexuality and Gender

humanism refers to the personal worth of an individual and that individuals right to his own particular values, and freedom from p...

Jules Winnfield's Transformation in Pulp Fiction Film

truths binding on everyone. Postmodernism is most often characterized by power struggles and a lack of objective reality, boundari...

Postmodern Artifact Film A Chinese Ghost Story

and contexts will merge in the production of the film. In examining the film as a post-modern artefact it may be argued that as...

Western Concepts on Imagination and Its Origins

of poetry, since it is the expression of imagination that allows for emotional comprehension. Introduction Imagination i...

3 Works of Postmodern Art

of Milenko Prvacki, an artist who works with a range of mediums. We will also examine the work of Zarre, whose use of color in he...

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Postmodernism

symbolic, it can be said to the juxtaposition of Martha to George(Clurman 12). Martha is high energy and ambitious, whereas George...

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare and Postmodern Educational Approaches

again it was a matter of holding the government responsible for the continued injustice and oppression of not only women but ethni...

Leadership Models through the Ages.

Greeks it had negative connotations, but also neutral and even positive ones (The early Greek world, 2006). One leader from this...

Oates/How I Contemplated the World... & Postmodernism

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...