Hugvísindadeild Postmodernism and The Simpsons Intertextuality‚ Hyperreality and Critique of Metanarratives Ritgerð til B.A.-prófs Björn Erlingur Flóki Björnsson bjornfloki@gmail.com Kt. 110982-5779 Maí 2006 Abstract This essay offers a postmodernist reading of the popular television program The Simpsons‚ with special regard to the postmodern theories of intertexuality‚ hyperreality‚ and metanarratives. Before delving into The Simpsons‚ some major theoretical aspects of postmodernism in aesthetic
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In the novel The Things They Carried‚ author Tim O’Brien builds the emotion that various soldiers had during the Vietnam war specifically Rat Kiley’s emotion. The feeling of pain‚ grief‚ sorrowness‚ joy‚ and unity. O’Brien uses diction‚ anecdote‚ symbolism and imagery to better establish the tone and build the relationship between the members of the unit. O’Brien goes in depth to each war story he presents using these rhetorical devices to better explain the story to the reader. Firstly O’Brien
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Postmodernism pp. 6-12 Analysis: Seinfeld and Postmodernism pp. 12-17 Conclusion p.18 Methodology The connection between Seinfeld’s series and postmodernism was reviewed. In order to comprehend the topic it
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In the beginning of this chapter‚ the platoon of soldiers run across an abandoned pagoda. I had to google what a pagoda was because I was unfamiliar with it. A pagoda is a Hindu or Buddhist temple or sacred building. In this pagoda‚ they found monks. This chapter was confusing to me at first because it was hard to find a reason for this chapter to be placed in this book. These monks aided to the soldiers; I assumed they did this because of their caring nature. I’m not sure if the monks quite understood
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“Queen Emma And The Vikings”‚ is a historical fiction written by Harriet O’Brien in 2005‚ but in the time period of the 900’s. Harriet O’Brien has a journalist based in London. She has written for the independent and Conde Nast Traveler‚ among other publications. She resigned after going freelance to travel more. She mainly covers the UK‚ Europe and Asia‚ where she grew up. This is her second book. The first book she wrote is called‚ “Forgotten Land”. This book intrigued me because it offered the
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claim they feel survivor’s guilt for not being able help others or maybe even witnessed them take their last breaths not because they couldn’t help but because they would be putting their self at risk if they did. Many people‚ especially soldiers say thing along the lines of‚ “if only they could have done something differently so that person could go home and
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“On the rainy river” is a short story that wonderfully depicts the showing of the time in 1968 where men were sent letters in the mail that drafted them into the war with a mentality that men are stronger and cannot show fear or emotion. These men had a feeling of shame and unmanly which imposed them to sexism towards the women in the society. A 21-year-old man by the name of Tom O’Brien was drafted into the American War in Vietnam merely one month after graduating from college. Tom speaks of his
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the writer of The Yellow Birds. His time in the Iraq War left him with a fragile mental state that made it difficult to have a conversation without trailing off or getting lost in his own thoughts. While Powers felt too much from what he had seen‚ Tim O’Brien’s time in the Vietnam war caused him to become cold and desensitized to death‚ prompting
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Postmodernism is difficult to define‚ because we go through it on a daily basis. Some would say it began in the 1950’s‚ and others say it began with the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Postmodernism is characterized by a variety of elements that question the reading experience. Postmodern authors celebrate this by using humour and absurd experiences to create a bizarre alternate reality. The different elements that are used throughout postmodernism stories include magic realism‚ metafiction
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Postmodernism and film This chapter will demonstrate the ways in which Jean Baudrillard’s and Fredric Jameson’s accounts of the postmodern have had a significant impact on the field of film studies‚ affecting both film theory and history. The most influential aspects of each theorist’s work are outlined in the first two sections. The first section focuses on two key texts by Baudrillard: Simulations and America‚ while the second addresses Jameson’s famous article “Postmodernism and Consumer
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