Postmodernism

The Beat Generation was heavily influenced by the events of World War II. Jack Kerouac was the original beatnik, with William S. Burroughs, and Charles Bukowski following him. Although other authors built upon Kerouac's work they highly differ in their styles. Beatnik literature reflects the rebellious inner self from the view of post World War II teenagers. The beats also tend to be very experimental with their lives and writing styles. Many believe that "the master narratives strangely seem…

Why You Think The Way You Do by Glenn S. Sunshine describes worldviews beginning with Rome and ending with our worldview today. He goes through and talks about each worldview and what shaped it and also how it leads to the next worldview during European history. He talks about the major viewpoints during European history. He begins with the worldview of ancient Rome then to Christianity followed by Medieval, which years later led to the Enlightenment and Renaissance worldview and then eventually…

The roles of motherhood and fatherhood have been distinctly separated and distributed amongst the female and male respectively for as long as anyone can remember. Now it is clear that these roles and relationships don’t actually have to be gendered. After reading both Salvage the Bones and The Motel Life, I think one can safely say that the role of motherhood is not gendered. However, the role of fatherhood is. We see motherhood played by both male and female characters in both novels but…

1. INTRODUCTION This summer project will be an attempt to explore how Samuel Beckett’s characterization, setting and use of language in his play 'Endgame' reveal his tendency to employ some existentialist concepts such as despair, anxiety and thrownness on the way to authenticity. Existentialism is a philosophical movement which focuses on individual existence rejecting the absolute reason. There are some reasons for the appearance of Existentialism in the history of thought. First of all,…

World War II, human attention towards living spaces is becoming more obvious than ever. Paying attention to living space is one of the postmodernism's achievements. Believing in living space in creating literary work has gained great importance in postmodernism period. "CHINESE-BOX WORLDS transformation suggests something like a functional equivalence between strategies of self-erasure or self-contradiction and strategies involving recursive structures—… types of strategy have the effect of…

which was caused by not mentioning genders issues in 1900’s, while she develops a point of view through a whore who lives in 1900’s social dynamics. The one of the characteristics of the date when the poet wrote Standing Female Nude is also postmodernism and poststructuralism which we can see all the thematic features of them along the whole poem which create the tension between the conservative form and postmodern content which constitutes irony, absolute truth, ideology, objective…

Ian McEwan’s Atonement explores the highly enthralling themes of war and the subsequent horrors, corruption, and the power of language and story-telling, a theme prevalent internationally or otherwise in every piece of literature. McEwan utilises and vast plethora of techniques and literary conventions in order to allow a deeper insight into these predominant themes. McEwan uses techniques including imagery and pathos to powerfully illustrate his Realist view of war. Within part II and III,…

This course began by questioning the proper role and place of public administration as a field of study. As we conclude with our final week, the topic arises once again. Donald Kettl in "Public Administration at the Millennium: The State of the Field, Laurence Lynn Jr. in "The Myth of the Bureaucratic Paradigm: What Traditional Public Administration Really Stood For," and Frederickson et al in The Public Administration Theory Primer evaluate the field of public administration, by answering three…

Defective of characteristics traditional to the protagonist, the antihero possesses an unscrupulous lack of morality and ardour to achieve the greater good; thus still a protagonist of the narrative, yet serves as a subversion of the traditional hero archetype. Although often the antithesis of the archetypal protagonist, the antihero gains begrudged sympathy and an extent of understanding from the reader that separates itself from the concept of the antagonist. Despite…

Rome telling them that their cultural ideology has no schoolmaster because it derives from a carnal mind, which is enmity against God’s law: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. For instance, one political ideology of postmodernism policy in America is the Common Law. According to FindLaw (2016), some states have adopted this law, which declares one considered legally married, despite not having a marriage license, a ceremony, or a marriage certificate, if you meet…