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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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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.
Table of Contents:
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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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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Postmodernism and the Study of History, 2002.
Discusses how postmodernism affects the study of history.
4,000 words (approx. 16.0 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 108.95
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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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Bell Hooks and Postmodernism, 2002.
Discusses the concept of postmodernism, focuising on contributions made by feminist, Bell Hooks.
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This paper provides an analysis of postmodernism and a discussion of the contributions of postcolonial feminist Bell Hooks. Issues addressed in this paper include the politics of difference, racism, essentialism and references are made specifically to the writings of bell hooks.
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Feminist Postmodernism, 2006.
This paper explores the feminist debate about postmodernism in light of Joan Hoff's article.
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The paper discusses how in 1994, Joan Hoff published an article in the "Women's History Review," provocatively entitled "Gender as a Postmodern Category of Paralysis." The article lived up to its provocative title, as it was in fact a blistering attack on postmodernist thinkers and specifically on feminist postmodernists. Not surprisingly, the article provoked anger and controversy and gave rise to a heated debate, conducted in scholarly journals (which are usually devoted to somewhat cooler debates). While some academics, such as Caroline Ramazanoglu, agreed with Hoff, the paper points out that others were singularly under-impressed by Hoff's attack.
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Postmodernism, 2002.
This paper is a theoretical discussion about postmodernism as seen through the eyes of two philosophers, Manning Nash and Frederic Jameson.
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This paper explores several discussions about modernity and its meaning. The author explains its impact on the world as we know it.
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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 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: Bret Easton Ellis' "American Psycho", 2006.
This paper examines Bret Easton Ellis' postmodern novel "American Psycho" to evaluate a quotation from French philosopher Jean Baudrillard.
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This paper explains that Jean Baudrillard's quotation refers to the commitment of contemporary American fiction to the pleasures and anxieties of consumer culture. The author states that this behavior is most fully exemplified in Bret Easton Ellis' "American Psycho" through his protagonist Patrick Bateman. The paper points out that the form of postmodernist texts, such as "American Psycho", opposes meta-narratives, which are the traditional method of writing. The author relates that the book's constant suggestion of boredom is often seen in other post modern art forms, such as the music of Talking Heads. The paper illuminates that Baudrillard's reference to "all life" is an over-generalization just as Patrick Bateman's conduct positions him at an extreme perimeter. The author concludes "American Psycho" contains a pertinent response to Baudrillard's resigned allusion to superficiality and the way in which many of people, not only psychopaths, actually live their lives.
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"Baudrillard's statement seems to have an air of ennui, or resignation, suggesting perhaps, that we have become immune to the reality of our emotions, being smothered (or embosomed, perhaps), by globalization. Notwithstanding Baudrillard's eminent status, (his Wikipedia page lists his academic achievements at some length), it would ill behoove us, as critics, to simply accept that this is, quite simply how things are, and that we might as well get used to it. Bateman, for this critic, gives the lie to Baudrillard's quote, which was originally published in his "Selected Writings" in 1988."
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Samuel Beckett And Postmodernism, 2002.
Discusses the revolt of the modernist writer/artist against traditional literary forms and subjects.
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Discusses the revolt of the modernist writer/artist against traditional literary forms and subjects. Examples and definitions of modernist fiction. Difference between modernism and postmodernism. Beckett's DREAM OF FAIR TO MIDDLING WOMEN. His attempt to develop a narrative style reflecting the incoherence of human existence. Beckett's writings on Proust, James Joyce, Surrealism. His postmodern artistic strategies.
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"In A Glossary of Literary Terms, Meyer Abrams defines modernism as the term used to identify distinctive features in the concepts, sensibility, form, and style of literature and art since World War I (1914-1918). He notes that while the specific features signified by modernism varied with the user, most critics agreed the concept involved a deliberate and radical break with the traditional bases of Western culture and Western art (Abrams 108). In essence, the modernist artist revolted against traditional literary forms and subjects, and this revolt manifested itself strongly after the total destruction of World War I shook men's faith in the foundations and continuity of Western civilization and culture (Abrams 108).
Abrams offers T. S. Eliot as an example of a modernist..."
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Postmodernism in Theater, 2004.
A review of different forms of theater in the Western world and how theater has evolved as an art over the past few centuries.
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The purpose of this paper is to see how the society has changed in retrospect to the period from modernism to postmodernism, creating awareness to different perspectives on analysis in today's world. It attempts to show how the best way this can be understood is through the developments in the world of theater and how the theater functions as an artifact and a metaphor of the times.
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Different Forms of Theater
Postmodern Theater
Actors and Audiences
Robert Wilson
Peter Brook
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"The modern theater is characterized by a narrative plot where the actors play out roles of everyday people who tell a story based on life's tragedies and conflicts, with the unfolding tragedy or comedy developing at a beginning and ending with the last act of the play. The aim of these plays is to stretch the audience's comprehension of existing reality, to being forward the truth that is basically obscured. Even though the results of the actors' behaviors are mostly tragic. The audience becomes emotionally aroused with the characters of the play. This is seen in reactions to Willy Loman in the play Death of a Salesman and in Blanche DuBois play, A Streetcar Named Desire."
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Postmodernism and Pop Culture Religion, 2008.
This paper looks at the portrayal of Judeo-Christian beliefs in television cartoons.
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The paper explores the influence of postmodernism on religion by exploring the Judeo-Christian religious beliefs present in television cartoons. The paper discusses how the perception of religion has changed through the postmodernist lens and also demonstrates how the cartoons themselves have been transformed from a form of childhood entertainment to one where serious adult issues are explored. The paper examines the cartoons "Veggie Tales", "The Simpsons" and "South Park".
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Introduction
Religion and Child-Targeted Cartoons
Religion and Adult-Targeted Cartoons
Remarks on Crossed Worlds
Summary
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"The influences of postmodernism within society are both diverse in nature and heavily distributed in content (Hull 57). Improvement in the ease of communications and the time taken to invest in same has led to a society in which its participants are highly decentralized, especially in respect to shared cultural commonalities such as ethnic, geographic, or religious traits. Also, while these traits still exist and persist, they are represented in non-traditional formats that demonstrate their influence on the community but are not authentic representations of the original traits themselves."
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A Look at Modernism and Postmodernism, 2002.
The paper looks at literature and authors of the modernist and postmodernist periods.
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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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