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Social Sciences
I think that Postmodern critiques are very useful for contemporary social policy because they guarantee an inclusion of voice. Postmodernism is not an all- encompassing, absolutist statement. When...
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Postmodernism
While post-modernism can contribute to the logic of disintegration, structuralism cannot. Post-modernism examines and illustrates the ideas of deconstruction. disintegration, and multiculturalism...
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The Secret Room
James Laughlin's The Secret Room is most assuredly a text representative of Postmodernism. According to the eNOtes Study Guide on Postmodernism, the period is represented by "imprecision and...
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Postmodernism
Postmodern style makes it challenging to read because of its deconstructionist nature. The deconstructionism that is such a part of postmodernism is a condition in which the author is able to...
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Feminism
The approach that the feminist movement took in deconstructing the pathology behind patriarchy was to examine on as many levels as possible why reality was constructed in the way it was. Some of...
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Postmodernism
The original question had to be edited. I think that one can find many examples of post World War II social movements that emphasized change and empowerment and were representative of Postmodern...
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The Postmodern Novel
When you think about 20th Century English Literature and Modern English Literature, you are essentially thinking about what might be termed a literary period and a literary sub-period. The 20th...
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Postmodernism
In short, post-structuralism refuses the idea of objective knowledge or indeed, that anyone is able to know him or herself. Post-structuralism "deconstructs" (to use a term coined by Jacques...
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Postmodernism
We must first note that the postmodern era outlined here saw the publication of many works of literature and film that were not postmodern in style, intent or theme. Romanticism, modernism, and...
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Postmodernism
Irony has lost both its humor and its drive to correct social wrongs in Postmodernist literature, so the ironic tone that might amuse in Austen's Pride and Prejudice becomes a biting, humorless...
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Postmodernism
Postmodernism refers to a period in history (roughly 1945-present) and also an artistic movement with particular themes and styles. Postmodernism is a reaction against Modernist themes and...
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Postmodernism
Deconstruction theories like Postmodernism and Poststructuralism represent the "logics of disintegration" because they believe that the structural understandings of truth are fundamentally flawed....
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Postmodernism
Postmodernism is one of the most influential intellectual movements of the twentieth century. It affects many different disciplines of the social sciences and the humanities, in both Europe and the...
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Postmodernism
Postmodernism was the major international movement in several branches of the humanities and social science in the second half of the twentieth century and thus is important as a component of your...
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Postmodernism
One of the historical events to come out of the Postmodern era has been globalism. And, with this event, the concept of identity has become more free but also more fragmented. For example, it is...
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Postmodernism
I think that the most common element of people's thought or behavior that results from Postmodern thought is the idea that "truth" is multifold and extremely complex. The Postmodern remnant on...
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Postmodernism
One example of the influence of postmodernism on people's thought would be the rise of cultural relativism. Postmodernists tend to question whether there is a single set of assumptions or norms...
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Postmodernism
Post-modernism can be seen as a stylistic movement in the arts, often specifically associated with literature. Post-structuralism can be seen as a loosely parallel movement in critical theory of...
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Postmodernism
I think that the advent of technology has fueled Postmodernism. The growing use of technology to simultaneously expand and shrink our world is something that drives Postmodernism. Consider that...
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Postmodernism
Postmodernists, whatever their field, tend to be skeptical of the certainty of knowledge. Postmodernism has been influential in a number of fields, including history, where it has called into...
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Postmodernism
The term "metanarrative" is usually used to refer to a large organizing principle for understanding development, especially historical development. Postmodernists, and many other modern scholars...
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Postmodernism
The first character that comes to mind (and probably the most "postmodern" of all literary heroes) is Slothrop from Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. This is a touchstone novel in the postmodern...
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Postmodernism
1. Jean Baudrillard is a postmodern critic noted mostly for his stance that culture has overtaken nature. We tend to consider that something exists in the world and then we come up with a word for...
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Margaret Atwood
I think that Atwood represents a postmodern approach to literature and to consciousness in seeking to broaden her own experience in the hopes of including others in it. Atwood writes about what it...
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Postmodernism
I would say that the answer to whether or not homosexuality can be considered a metanarrative is no. I think it is a narrative in the sense that, like feminism, queer theory attempts to unearth...
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Postmodernism
There might be a couple of issues that need to be addressed here. The first would be the initial assumption that Postmodern dominance was "unquestioned." I don't see Postmodernism as ever having...
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Postmodernism
We have to realize that were we to go to another planet, we would describe that planet with our own terminology and according to our own experience. Whether or not our observations were...
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Postmodernism
I think that the quotation is fairly significant in how is assigns meaning from a socially constructive level. For the Postmodernist, reality has to be seen and critiqued in different lights. It...
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Postmodernism
Postmodernism refers both to a set of philosophical and aesthetic theories and also to the culture and works that seem most to exemplify these theories. While there are several different flavours...
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Postmodernism
Please allow me to add: postmodernism is misnamed, because it sounds like it came after Modernism. Actually it is a part of Modernism, that part dealing with form rather than content. Modernism...
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Postmodernism
This is a great question. It is important to start with a definition of postmodernism. Perhaps the best way to look at postmodernism is the lack of a grand narrative that encompasses all knowledge....
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Postmodernism
First, the term implies that it came after modernism, which is not quite accurate. Second, usually these terms are invented after the fact by critics, but this term was incorporated into the...
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Postmodernism
The Frankfurt School was composed of a group of social theorists who originally all worked together in Frankfurt, Germany, but who then moved to the United States in response to the rise of the...
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Postmodernism
There are a few different ways you can relate Freudian psychology to postmodernism.First, you could do a Freudian critique of postmodern theory, arguing for its denial of the author as some form of...
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Postmodernism
The answer to this question depends greatly on your own point of view and how you read what is happening in culture. I guess the one problem with any post-postmodern philosophy or thought emerging...
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Postmodernism
I suppose my critique of postmodernism is on a theoretical level. The fundamental idea behind postmodernism is that "there is no there." The notion here is that judgments and assessments are...
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Postmodernism
I don't really think that there will be much in way of Postmodern criticism on the part of feminist theory. I think this because Postmodernism envelops and covers feminist criticism. Feminist...
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Postmodernism
It will be hard to speak of "the" postmodern view of gender. There are many differences of opinion. However, there are a few principles of postmodernism that are important to consider when you are...
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Postmodernism
This is a difficult question to answer, because postmodernism is directly in contrast to all theories. Postmodernism is a believe that all knowledge is relative and that there is no such thing as a...
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Postmodernism
An essentialist idea is one in which certain types of people are said to have inherent characteristics that are innate to members of that type of person. Therefore, any social science idea that...
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Postmodernism
Deconstructionism and the `high theory` branch of postmodernism have been criticized from the perspectives of neo-pragmatism, speech act theory, historicism, and cultural studies. Neo-pragmatists...
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Postmodernism
There is a tendency to view “deconstructionism” as some sort of non-logical, random assault on reason and logic. It is not. Postmodernism (of which deconstruction is one element) pays...
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Postmodernism
This is a good question. A good place to start is it look at modernism and postmodern. Modernism is largely a belief in objective reality. Through observation, modernism believes that we can get a...
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Postmodernism
I would say that the Cold War played a large role in how the Postmodern period evolved. For the Postmodern thinkers, the idea that World War II set out to end aggression and repression and then...
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Postmodernism
Modernism is very much from the print era with its hierarchical, rational, centered, and scientific structure. It's from the democratic era of print in which authors used deductive theses to prove...
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Postmodernism
Deconstruction is the term that postmodernists use to describe the breakdown of supposedly absolutist constructs like "truth, knowledge, and certainty." It was coined by Jacques Derrida and became...
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Postmodernism
Postmodernism in literature, as one can imagine by its name, deals with literature after the "modern" literary period. Whereas the modern era concentrated on what was occurring during the...
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Postmodernism
I had to pare down the question because I think that both Spiegelman's work and McLuhan's work represents postmodern thought in separate ways. At the same time, this is not going to be easy...
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Postmodernism
I have done a little research into this topic so that I could give a more detailed answer (OK, I’m a modernist, not postmodernist!). What I have discovered is that there is a lot of disagreement...
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Postmodernism
Concerning modernism and postmodernism, I'll deal with two mistaken notions in your thinking that your question reveals. These notions are fundamental to any genuine understanding of an answer to...