Post-structuralism

seen in early American literature such as that of Anne Bradstreet’s “The Author to her book” and Johnathan Edwards’s “ Sinners in the among others. American literature eventually evolved into a secular art. Later movements such as Modernism and Post-structuralism references very little of the “fire and brimstone” approach that formed a vital element of Puritan literature(The Literature Network, par. 1). The idea of salvation eventually changed to the notion of…

Structure and agency are main concepts in social theory. Structure refers to the general features of social life that happen regularly and do not change. Structure also refers to social institutions or systems, social facts that are independent of the individual and are able to determine and restrict individual action. Agency refers to action; usually the action of individuals or groups. Agency also refers to the thought that individuals are capable of choosing different courses of action.…

weddings; poems; blood of honor and sex before marriage; girls being educated; arranged marriage; marrying Egyptians and tribal bonds; and piety and order. Throughout Writing Women’s Worlds, it is evident that Abu-Lughod was influenced by several feminist, post-structuralist, and postmodernist scholars, which I will demonstrate below. Presented in the book are four major themes: (1) feminist anthropology and ethnography, (2) writing against culture, (3) rituals and symbols, and (4) orientalism…

our sensory system. Later building off other psychologist’s theories of a nonexistent case of matter James formulated that there is the experience which is part of our consciousness to develop. Titchener redefined consciousness as the study of structuralism, stating that all knowledge is received from an individual’s experience, Studying the development…

Drawing inspiration/influence is a particularly tricky situation, because as artists we feel this overarching desire—nay, need—to leave a permanent and unique stain on the world. If that stain resembles too closely one that came before it, then where is the ingenuity in that? This being the case, it is impossible to make anything of merit without being at least subconsciously influenced. Only upon realizing this fact and embracing it is an artist able to fully and successfully utilize the arts…

any field about the aesthetic criteria defining this avant-garde of artistic movements. Indeed, even the notion that postmodernism retains the nom de guerre “avant-garde” is debatable when considering commentary such as Richard Schechner’s Post-Post-Structuralism? in TDR and hghghghghghg. In her introduction to Postmodernism, an analysis of contemporary visual art, Eleanor Heartney compares the absence of any finite exactitude of postmodernity to the concept of God; being both “remarkably…

some structuralist critics like Christophe Balay stresses on internal aspects of modern literary works. Using the ideas of Jolles, Tomachevski, Cheovski, and Eikhenbaum, Balay tries to study Dehkhoda’s Charand o Parand founded on a formalism and structuralism (78). He cannot categorize Dehkhoda’s works as Persian tale (hikayat) nor as western short story (82), but locates them somewhere between traditional Iranian and Western literary genres. Briefly, Balay searches the sources of Persian short…

The question of whether the relationship between Feminism and Postmodernism is or has been a productive one (especially for the former) is one that has been asked for a generation now. In its wake has emerged philosophies and theories which have profoundly challenged, if not altered, the shape and direction of Feminism, much to the ongoing dismay of many of its advocates. While the often-contentious discourse around these “two leading currents of our time” (17) did not begin with the debate that…

margins of things. Postmodernism also views consumption as a passive act, when every product is mass-produced and rehashed a thousand times before, the new frontier is mass customization. Alvin Toffler (1980) argues that the decline of consumers in post-industrial age is replaced by prosumers, people who produce their own goods and services. Social media is a great example of how users are a producer and consumer altogether. Axel Bruns (2008) asserts that in networked, IT-oriented economy,…

This essay will analyse the statement 'mental illness is a social problem”. To examine this statement the sociological perspectives will be discussed as well as common social contributors to mental illness with in the concept of gender and lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gender and inter-sexual community (LGBTI). The aim of this essay is discuss and elaborate on the concept of gender and more specifically the LGBTI community in Australia and how mental illness affects according to gender, gender…