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Western Concepts on Imagination and Its Origins

of poetry, since it is the expression of imagination that allows for emotional comprehension. Introduction Imagination i...

Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips

vessel. The children are Nash, Martha and Travis, and their stories form the basis for the three major divisions in the text. The ...

Humanist v. Postmodern Views on Sexuality and Gender

humanism refers to the personal worth of an individual and that individuals right to his own particular values, and freedom from p...

Popular Culture and Postmodernism

the nineteenth century, or so, the art world seemed to go into a slump. Quite like writers block, this slump saw a lull in the art...

Jules Winnfield's Transformation in Pulp Fiction Film

truths binding on everyone. Postmodernism is most often characterized by power struggles and a lack of objective reality, boundari...

Aesthetics and Marxism

understood. He goes on to call it a queer thing that abounds in metaphysical subtleties as well as theological niceties (1887). A...

Postmodernism and Great Britain

influences as well as reflects the society in which it manifests. Here we may see a post-modern attitude. The influence of many ot...

Modern and Postmodern Sociology Issues

expressed in a direct cause and effect relationship. Also, the function need not be positive or nurturing. Certainly, Durkheim w...

Art, Art Criticism, and Postmodern Culture

all embodied become the casualties of another direction, only to be broken apart and redeveloped by way of postmodernistic composi...

Postmodern Deconstructionist Architecture

Russian constructivist forms and by Derridean deconstruction" (Ganim 364). Basically, the philosophy behind the concept of decons...

Social Commentary and Postmodern TV

In five pages this paper discusses postmodern television within the contexts of social commentary and parody. Five sources are ci...

Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas

human mind contributed to the displacement of Christianity several centuries later from its central position in the formation of ...

Types of Theater

The writer discusses the difference between postmodern theatre and the epic theatre of Bertolt Brecht. The paper is seven pages lo...

Text Function of Artwork

Art. The Postmodern artists discussed will be Cindy Sherman and Philip Pearlstein. Post-modernism According to Strickland (1992...

3 Postmodern Works Analyzed

In six pages this research paper compares how postmodern perspectives manifest themselves in director Peter Greenaway's film The C...

Systems in White Noise by Don DeLillo

the book choose to use the information with which they are being bombarded. Each system takes on, in effect, its own miniature mu...

Professions and Disciplines by Daniel Rossides

deals with knowledge about how knowledge itself develops. From this starting point, Rossides goes on to discuss a brief history of...

A Hero in Print and Throughout Time

the path to order by bringing structure to the process of understanding. The classical hero was one who was brave, honest, pious ...

Discussion of Postmodernism and Post-Postivism

asks questions (Aylesworth, 2010). This has a direct impact on the state of knowledge because it suggests that knowledge is always...

"The Color Purple" - Gender and Postmodernism

philosophical movement, having been founded in direct opposition to the tenets of modernism (namely, the scientific objectivity an...

"Family Guy" - A Sociological Reading

cross-country destination to fulfill a nefarious purpose. Despite being a baby and a dog, Stewie and Brian are both fully articula...

An Analysis of Josh Gracin's "The Other Little Soldier"

anything too abstract or relevant to human concepts of beauty and complexity. While the songs lyrics sing the tired tale of a sold...

Van Gogh, Sherman: Modern, Postmodern

the popular lexicon connotes the current era and whatever is contemporary within that era, and it has been used in this context si...

Mappings, Feminism and Cultural Geographies of Encounters by Susan S. Friedman

cultures" (Friedman 5). This is what Friedman attempts to offer her readers in this text. Part I focuses on the encounters betwe...

Literary Genres Modernism and Postmodernism

it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was" (Hemingway 13). He is a man lost in a world with no dire...

Sociology, Classical and Postmodern Social Theories

radical modernism that is aligned with the Frankfurt School (Lippert, 2000). Strategic postmodernism may be associated with Foucau...

Lorna Simpson's Impact on Postmodern Feminist Art

depictions of Black women that hide their face, their central visual identity. This is the basis through which Simpson creates a ...

Postmodernism and Feminist Therapy

has always been the primary quest of the feminist critical theory to assess the sometimes-strained yet always misunderstood relati...

Postmodernism in Slaughterhouse-Five

the painter to paint the picture (time of production), the time required to look at and understand the work (time of consumption) ...

Aspects of Modern and Postmodern Art

from representational meaning and locating the meaning of the art within the work itself (Fleming 364). On the other hand, abstrac...