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    Post Modernism Explained

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    Notes on Lyotard ’Jean-François Lyotard‚ Ph.D.‚ (b. 1924 in Versailles) became one of the world’s foremost philosophers‚ noted for his analysis of the impact of postmodernity on the human condition. A key figure in contemporary French philosophy‚ his interdisciplinary discourse covers a wide variety of topics including knowledge and communication; the human body; modernist and postmodern art‚ literature‚ and music; film; time and memory; space‚ the city‚ and landscape; the sublime; and the relation

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    Modernism and Post Modernism in Literature Modernism in Literature Literary Modernism has its origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries‚ mainly in Europe and North America. Modernism is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse. Modernists experimented with literary form and expression‚ adhering to the modernist maxim to "Make it new." The modernist literary movement was driven by a desire to overturn traditional modes of representation and express

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    Hutcheon in her essay “Beginning to Theorize the Postmodern” in 1987 and then further developed in her seminal study A Poetics of Postmodernism ( 1988 ) to describe “those well-known and popular novels which are both intensely self-reflexive and yet paradoxically also lay claim to historical events and personages.”  According to Hutcheon‚ in "A Poetics of Postmodernism"‚ works of historiographic metafiction are "those well-known and popular novels which are both intensely self-reflexive and yet paradoxically

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    The Fear of the Unknown

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    form or another. They become burdened with the obsession of concrete meaning; a black and white‚ a right and wrong. This is a classic example of a modernist mind stuck in a postmodern world. Postmodernism is about the arbitrary connection between reality and the subject matter. The point of postmodernism is to create a connection and knowledge through culture not through the past meanings that have developed over time. Barthes‚ Derrida‚ and Saussure each deeply study the themes of the postmodern

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    POSTMODERN FILM

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    Open Rubric “Postmodernism has enriched film theory and its analysis by calling attenti0n to a stylistic shift toward a media conscious cinema” (Gonarkar 2012)  Postmodenism can be characterised by various aspects including:  Pastiche  Nostalgia  Disjointed narratives  Emotional detachment  Self-referentialism  Time bending  Altered realities  ‘Quoting’ from different film genres and film     movements/periods as well as from other visual media and actual historical periods

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    “Pastiche” is part of the complex concept of postmodernism. Jameson describes postmodernism as “specific reactions against…high modernism” and “the erosion of the older distinction between high culture and so-called mass or popular culture‚” and specifies postmodernism’s use in “that newly emergent social order of late capitalism” (Jameson 1-3). The Twilight story does not exactly fit all aspects of this certain definition and usage of postmodernism‚ but it applies postmodernist consumer theories

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    of sexuality‚ Vol. I. New York: Vintage Books. Hsia‚ T.C. 1961. . New Haven: Yale University Press. Hutcheon‚ L. 2002. The politics of postmodernism. London: Routledge. Jameson‚ F. 1983. Postmodernism and consumer society. In The anti-aesthetic: essays on postmodern culture‚ ed. H. Foster‚ 111––125. Port Townsend‚ Washington: Bay Press. _____. 1991. Postmodernism or the cultural logic of late capitalism. London: Verso. Lee‚ L.O. 2008a. Lust/Caution Xinhua Reader’’s Digest 4: 88––90. _____. 2008b

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    Postmodern literature has its many spokesmen. Many would agree that Kazuo Ishiguro is not the most typical representative of this somewhat anarchistic literary and social movement‚ but he is certainly one of its most subtle and valuable artists. He uses the principles of post modernistic writing in a very meaningful way‚ and only after a thorough analysis can one fully appreciate all carefully constructed and presented elements trough which he successfully delivers his story. Remains of the day‚

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    Organisational Theory

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    Apple is a global giant whose success has been built on outsourcing to a range of other organisations located across the world. How can different organizational theory perspectives assist us in acquiring different understanding of Apple‚ its organizational network and influence? In this essay you must use at least two perspectives to analyze Apple. Introduction In this revolutionised world‚ changes occur rapidly‚ be it in an organized or disorganized way (Henry Veltmeyer 2008). Organisations are

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    Issey Miyake & Postmodernism Essay By Bobby Luke 1119795 Issey Miyake & Postmodernism Essay By Bobby Luke 1119795 Postmodernism & Issey Miyake As designers we critically think about what we want our creations to be‚ what they look like and most importantly what they are inspired by. The shift and movement away from modernity in western society has become a significant change over the past century‚ notions of critical theory‚ art‚ fashion‚ literature‚ and philosophy

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