and news coverage from various African aid charities within these time periods. Intent Using The Postmodern Condition (Lyotard‚ 1984) and other sources I will outline the background theory concerning the societal shift from modernism to postmodernism‚ the incredulity of meta-narratives which characterise this shift‚ and the driving force behind the shift according to Lyotard: language games. For each theory I will use evidence from adverts and news reports to demonstrate that these changes have
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In the postmodern age‚ when no more ‘metanarratives’ are to be believed‚ the glorious heritage of the golden past appears incredulous to the current generation. The current trend of poetry‚ which boasts itself of sceptically questioning the roots and traditions‚ where the motif of ‘emancipation’ is not needed‚ as the worth of human life itself is enquired‚ though is different from our ancient noble trend of poetry‚ yet still it manages to help man by making him search for his new identity; an identity
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Spiegelman’s Maus II is a graphic novel and I believe Spiegelman chose this format because it is the only way to discuss the Holocaust while simultaneously conveying the impossibility of doing such a task. The Holocaust was such a horrific event that there is no way of truly representing it. Spiegelman realized that everything is a representation. He also realized that representing every aspect of the Holocaust was something that simply cannot be done. It is impossible to capture something free of
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In a dystopian world masquerading as a utopia‚ a soon to be sixteen-year-old heroine‚ Tally Youngblood‚ embarks upon a journey that will change her world in Scott Westerfield’s young adult novel Uglies. The book revolves around a futuristic totalitarian state that relies heavily upon technology and one in which individuals are divided into different age groups‚ upon turning twelve children known as Littlies leave their parents homes to live in the dorms of Uglyville where they continue to grow and
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101042503 沈可榆 Sylvia Literary Theory November 12th‚ 2012 In this essay‚ I would settle on parts of psychoanalytic theories (mostly Freudian theories) and retool my understanding of the other three works‚ which contains Kant’s discussion on alienation and human condition/rationality‚ Lyotard’s postmodernism‚ and Pynchon’s novel‚ The Crying of Lot 49‚ to propose a different take on the Freudian conception. The body of this essay is constructed with theories followed by the explanation and example
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Yaotl Orozco Mr. Berg Economics "All that is solid melts into air." This quote by Karl Marx is important in understanding the relationship of modernity‚ postmodernity‚ and globalization because the one thing all three terms have in common is that they are ever-changing. The ideas of modernity and postmodernity are always changing along with time‚ as are the flows of globalization. I think the three terms are ever-changing because they are affected by the world we live in‚ which is always changing
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Feminism and Postmodernism: An Uneasy Alliance http://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/benhabib-seyla/uneasy-alliance.htm Source: Feminist Contentions. A Philosophical Exchange‚ Seyla Benhabib‚ Judith Butler‚ Drucilla Cornell‚ Nancy Fraser‚ with an introduction by Linda Nicholson. Published by Routledge.‚ pp. 1-16. 1. The Feminist Alliance With Postmodernism A decade ago a question haunted feminist theorists who had participated in the experiences of the New Left and who had come to
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On Postmodernism For my short essay I will focus on a postmodern reading of Joyce Carol Oates‚ "How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Corrections and Began My Life Over Again." More precisely‚ as a postmodern text. Postmodernism refers to texts that reject coherence in a narrative‚ objective truth‚ and show doubts about the reliability of language to communicate. Postmodern techniques that are evident in Oates story were fragmented narrative‚ disrupted time sequence‚ disunified
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Modernism vs. Postmodernism Post-modernism follows and shares many of the same ideas as modernism. Though‚ at the same time‚ they differ in many ways. These distinctions can be seen in the two works of literature‚ “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller and “Glengarry Glen Ross” by David Mamet. “Death of a Salesman” represents the modernist literature. Modernism is a style of literature that came about after World War I in Europe. It emerged in the United States in the late 1920s. Modernism
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Rick & Morty is an animated series created by Dan Harmon (Monster House‚ Community) and Justin Roiland (Fish Hooks‚ The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti). Rick & Morty follows Rick Sanchez‚ an older‚ alcoholic‚ incredible intelligent and potty-mouthed scientist and his grandson‚ Morty Smith‚ an awkward‚ shy‚ unconfident but intelligent in his own way‚ on a series of absurd adventures through time‚ space‚ and different realities. While each and every episode isn’t necessarily connected thematically
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