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Postmodern Literature, Architectural Thinking and Experience, 2005.
The influence of postmodern literature upon architectural thinking and experience in the post-modern age.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 35.95
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The paper examines the correlation between postmodern literature and postmodern architecture by reviewing three notable postmodern literary works and how their features (principally a disavowal of traditional, historical myth) may be found in three post-modern architectural marvels of today. These two disciplines are at the forefront of a new age of meta-cognition, one that rebuilds the past by de-constructing it.
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"There is, perhaps predictably, a strong relationship between postmodern literature and postmodern architecture. One says "predictably" because architects and literary artists are both sculptors and creators and are thus subject to the same broad intellectual fetishes or contretemps. With this in mind, the following paper will examine the correlation between postmodern literature and postmodern architecture by reviewing three notable postmodern literary works and how their features (principally a disavowal of traditional, historical "myth") may be found in three post-modern architectural marvels of today."
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Postmodern Literature, 2007.
This paper discusses postmodern literature by using as examples Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and Don DeLillo's "White Noise".
1,675 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 54.95
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This paper examines the methods by which writers are able to capture and present reality without actually portraying what is real but instead by showing a distorted reality. The author examines Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and Don DeLillo's "White Noise" to see how these writers use reality in their works and to compare the similarities and differences between them. The paper states that this genre of distortion focuses on subjective stories, shunning the theme of external reality, which is popular in realist books, in favor of an examination of the internal mind.
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"Clearly "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is a story about the disillusion of the American Dream. It presents reality to the reader through the perspective of two drug-crazed individuals hopelessly pursuing the illusionary dream. Further, the entire pursuit occurs in the Nevada desert, in Las Vegas, the city that represents the consumerist culture that has somehow come to be the American Dream. These facts alone demonstrate how the author successfully presents reality by simply distorting it to such a point that it no longer exists."
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Theory of Literature, 2002.
Discusses the role of literature to the reader and the reader to literature.
2,300 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 70.95
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What kind of work does literature do in the world? What does a text do that a song does not? What difference does it make that we can read? And, indeed, why should we read at all? Does the written text have any redeeming value in our own age, or are we in a post-textual (as well as a postmodern and post-structuralist) age? What can the purpose of literature be when anything that is actually produced through the technology of the printing press (which once changed the world) now seems rather horribly quaint? What kind of work does literature do in the world, and what kind of work is it that we do as readers? These last two questions lie at the heart of this paper. They are not in fact the same question merely differently phrased. The paper argues that literature ? the text qua text ? and reading (the subject as agent consuming the text) can be quite different from each other. Before the writer sets forth his own ideas on the function and purpose of literature, he explores the ideas of others on the subject who have tried to define for their own times and places (and for their own writers and readers) what it is that literature does in the world.
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"But, while the impassioned literary warriors on either side might not want to admit to this fact, it might well be that there is no single correct way to analyze a text. Or rather there may well be no single correct way to analyze every text. There may be one best way for each text, requiring us to consider local definitions of analysis rather than universal ones. However, this moderate position is one rarely admitted to by either those who support or those who oppose reader-response models and it is in fact easy to understand why this should be the case: The two embody fundamentally opposing world views. Is the purpose of literature one that is determined by the creator or by the consumer?"
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Hermeneutics: A Critical Approach to Literature, 2002.
Examines the study of Hermeneutics and how this philosophy can be used to analyze literature from a different perspective.
2,014 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper defines Hermeneutics as "the theory or philosophy of the interpretation of meaning". This paper examines the origins of this philosophy in order to better understand its uses today. After discussing the major contributors to the development of this study, the paper mentions some writings which provide a hermetical analysis of literature. These include Leonard Orr?s "De-structuring the Novel: Essays in Applied Postmodern Hermeneutics" and Hans-Georg Gadamer's "Dialogue and Dialectic: Eight Hermeneutical Studies on Plato".
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"Furthermore, hermeneutical criticism is often compared to a dialogue. The reader and the text respond to each other until understanding is reached. This hermeneutic conversation avoids the one-sidedness that is associated with other critical approaches. Gadamer believes that it allows the interpreter to use questions as the "universal mediator in the dialectic between the prejudice prior to the encounter with the work and the new element which denounces it . . .?(Orr Dictionary 231). Theorists refer to the conversation between the interpreter and text as spiel (game or play). But David Haliburton warns that calling this interaction play does not ?reduce it to a hedonistic pastime . . . playing is a high and serious act" (Orr Dictionary 232). And unlike other types of play, such as chess, the game is an ongoing process that never ends."
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A Look at Modernism and Postmodernism, 2002.
The paper looks at literature and authors of the modernist and postmodernist periods.
3,512 words (approx. 14.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 98.95
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According to the paper, the modernist period is generally established to have occurred between World War I (1914-1918) and World War II (1939-1945). The term 'postmodernism' is applied to the literature and art after World War II (1939-45). The writer examines some of the literature of these periods, pointing out elements that arise out of the historical context in which it was written.
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"Abrams offers T. S. Eliot as an example of a modernist poet. When reviewing James Joyce's Ulysses in 1923, Eliot argued that the traditional and inherited mode of arranging a literary work assumed a relatively coherent and stable social order that could not harmonize with "the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history" (Abrams 108). Abrams notes that Eliot experimented with new forms and styles that, like Joyce and Ezra Pound, often contrasted contemporary disorder to the lost order, which had been based on the religion and myths of the Western cultural past (Abrams 108)."
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Postmodernism of Resistance and Reaction, 2008.
A review of art works by Hans Hofmann, Damien Hirst and Sherrie Levine and how they portray postmodernism of resistance or postmodernism of reaction.
1,421 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper discusses the concept of postmodernism of resistance and postmodernism of reaction. It explores this concept and use examples of art to illustrate what is meant by this contrast. The paper describes and discusses art works by Hans Hofmann, Damien Hirst and Sherrie Levine and shows how these artists portrayed postmodernism of resistance or postmodernism of reaction.
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"Instead, I would argue that the art world needed to wait another ten years to see true examples of "postmodernism of resistance" - in the form of artwork such as Damien Hirst's, which embodied what has been termed a "striking analogue for the relationship between aesthetic and lived experience" (Hopkins 228). Here was something that was utterly different, in that it was not merely a reaction against the formalism of Modernism. Instead, it embodied a sweeping paradigm shift, relocating art within the paradigm of installation. In so doing, it resists Modernism to the extent that it even places new demands upon the viewer of art - for example, often she must move. Indeed, her movement may inform the meaning of the artwork - something scarcely contemplated in the formalism of Modernism. Moreover, rather than form following function, function becomes irrelevant."
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Postmodern Architecture, 2005.
This paper discusses the term "postmodernism" with a focus on postmodern architecture.
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The paper defines what postmodernism in the field of architecture is by looking at the Milwaukee Art Museum designed by Spanish architect, Santiago Calatrava. The paper begins by looking at what postmodernism is in general, defining the term and movement. Then the paper looks at what postmodern architecture is, in relation to modernist design. Finally, the paper examines it in the light of Calatrava's 2001 building.
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"The cool kids call it "po-mo." The literate among us toss the term around at wine-and-cheese parties. The academics who tower over us apply it to children's cartoons and sketchy literature and nauseating paintings, as if they know some secret, tucked away in some ivory tower that the rest of us are missing. The rest of us, in the meantime, wonder whether there is a hyphen, a space, or nothing at all in the term that we all know as "postmodernism." The prefix "postmodern" has been used to describe, analyze and tag just about every work of art or academic pursuit during the past half century."
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What is "Post" About Postmodernism?, 2001.
An in-depth examination of postmodernism and how it differs from the pre-modernism and modernist eras.
4,370 words (approx. 17.5 pages), 33 sources, APA, $ 115.95
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This paper thoroughly explains postmodernism and describes the philosophical concepts that lead up to this era. It defines that the ?post? in postmodern is the rejecting of enlightenment. The paper describes the nine characteristics of the postmodern period. The author states that postmodernism is the philosophy of reality.
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Introduction
Toward a Basic Definition of Postmodernism
Postmodernism?s Predecessors
What is ?Post? about Postmodernism?
Conclusion
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"In his book, Reality Isn't What It Used to Be, Walter Truett Anderson points out that our world has undergone a significant change. "In recent decades we have passed, like Alice slipping through the looking glass, into a new world," he says. This new world is the postmodern world. Anderson is not alone in his observation. Many have written books and articles in recent decades describing the phenomenon of postmodernism. What, though, is postmodernism and what are its characteristics? The purpose of this article is to examine postmodernism. In particular, it will attempt to identify the major characteristics of postmodernism and address the question, "What is 'post' about postmodernism?"
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Modernism and Postmodernism, 2003.
Discussing the originality of the postmodern movement, this essay compares and contrasts elements of Postmodernism and Modernism.
3,184 words (approx. 12.7 pages), 18 sources, MLA, $ 92.95
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This essay generally discusses the concept of Postmodernism. It moves through basic attributes of Postmodernism and assesses the movement's originality by comparing passages and quotes from both Postmodernist and Modernist authors, including James Joyce, ee cummings, Eudora Welty, Truman Capote, William Carlos Williams, Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Frost, John Steinbeck, Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut.
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"Postmodernism as a literary movement began after World War II, following a long era of the Modernist period. Both Modernism and Postmodernism are typically characterized as the ?playful? eras because they played with, or discarded, the Victorian ideas of ?how art should be made, consumed, and what it should mean? (Klages). With the end of the conventional rules of literature, the Postmodernists prided themselves on being the celebrators of nothingness, innovative and spontaneously creative. While individual writers may have achieved these goals in their own works, as a whole, the movement was not an all-original upheaval. Postmodernism took not only its name, but many of its elements, from Modernism. In one way or another, the rejection of traditional concepts about point-of-view, the shift of emphasis from meaning to method, and the variations of disunity and unity in the work were all transmutations of Modernism."
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Postmodern Feminism and Public Administration, 2007.
A look at the contributions of the postmodern feminist theory to public administration.
1,083 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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The paper looks at the principles of postmodern feminism, highlighting this tradition's important break from traditional liberal feminism. The paper examines the writings of postmodern writers such as Simone de Beauvoir and Judith Butler, especially their writings on the social construction of the "masculine" and "feminine." It then looks at traditional public administration's "hard" approach that conflicts with ideas that have been referred to as "soft." The paper argues that postmodern feminism can help to create a synthesis between these two approaches, one that combines the best features of both the "hard" and "soft" styles of public administration. It also contends that postmodern feminism jars administrators from their comfort zones and in the process, generates new and innovative modes of thinking.
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Postmodern Feminism
Public Administration
Conclusion
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"Far from being a monolithic entity, feminism has a variety of traditions and focuses. This diversity is reflected in the various approaches of feminism towards studying and criticizing the representation of women in public life. Traditional liberal feminism, for example, has focused on key questions of access. This first wave of feminism believed that when women had access to public institutions such as education and the work place, then gender inequity would be erased. The period of "modernity" was therefore characterized by women's access to areas of public life that was traditionally reserved only for men."
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Postmodernism and the Role of Identity, 2002.
Examines why the individual no longer exists in the postmodern era.
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This paper will address the difficulties inherent in defining and explaining an identity in relation to postmodern definitions. It is hoped that through using postmodern theory that the loose comprehension of an identity will be better clarified, as well as will provide a better understanding of the modern cognitions of "identity", both personal and broad in nature. This paper shall accomplish this goal in three steps. First, it shall define the term of "identity" as it will be used in this paper. Second, it shall apply this term to personal identities. Third, the definition of an identity will be applied to more broad social situations. All of these steps shall rely heavily on the postmodern theory as a foundation for references.
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Postmodernism, 2006.
This paper examines postmodernism and looks at how Jameson views this culture.
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In this article the writer notes that Jameson regards postmodernism as a cultural dominant whereby American culture is being perpetrated along with American military and domination across the globe. The writer discusses the definition and effects of postmodernism according to Jameson. Further, the writer points out that the central issue in which Jameson believes is the fate of culture generally and of the function of culture specifically as one social level or instance in the postmodern era.
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"One of the effects of global hegemony is that commodity production has subsumed aesthetic production. The outcome is that a degenerate culture has now been instituted as the official culture of Western society."
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Postmodern Road Movies, 2003.
An analysis and comparison of two postmodern American road movies.
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This paper analyzes two postmodern road movies namely, Wim Wenders "Paris, Texas" and Jim Jarmusch's "Stranger than Paradise". It compares the film's characters, philosophy, existentialism and postmodern sensibility. It explores road movies as a reflection of American culture. The author discusses the chaotic state of American culture as depicted in the sensibility of the two films.
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"American road movies are a reflection of American culture steeped in the particular culture and images of their time. In spite of this, road movies in general have common characteristics. An individual, two people or a small group attempt to escape the world the ..."
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Vietnam Veterans' Memorial and Postmodernism, 2003.
Rhetorical analysis of the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Washington D.C.
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Modernism is the search for a universality. The break from this search is creatively named postmodernism. Postmodernism is the belief that there is no universal constant and that everything is subject to context. The Vietnam Veterans' Memorial is an example of postmodern architecture. The wall is significant because it is one of the first memorials in this country to break from the modern view of architecture. By using postmodern ideological criticism of the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial, this paper discovers that remembrance is a non-universal act, different for every person.
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"On April 19, 2000 the Oklahoma City Memorial opened to the public. The Memorial was built to remember the tragic events of five years earlier, the bombing of the Alfred P Murrah federal building in downtown Oklahoma City. The memorial was designed by Hans and Torrey Butzer. The Butzers were the winners of a competition pool of over 630 entries. The design for the memorial is based heavily on the postmodern nature of the Butzers? architectural upbringing. The University of Texas at Austin?s school of architecture is known for its postmodern views of form and function."
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Postmodernism and the Study of History, 2002.
Discusses how postmodernism affects the study of history.
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This paper looks at postmodernism in the study of history.The writer particularly balances arguments by Keith Jenkins and Richard J Evans while providing an examination of the effects and consequences of postmodernist thought on the study of history and historiography.
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"Postmodern historians have essentially come to view history as a study of images, thoughts, language and feelings about society and the past. In short that history is simply discourse and no particular discourse is in essence truer than another. According to postmodern ideas, what actually happened is no longer the historian's primary concern, in fact what happened can never really be known. Instead, what is important is what people thought happened."
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