Postmodernism

Introduction Love has many shapes and comes in many forms. What is the love in Romance like? What is the nature of love in the postmodern story? How is love expressed in the novel written by A.S. Byatt named Possession – A romance? This paper explores the motif of love reflected in the novel and provides the analysis and explanation for the representation of this motif in the story. The main aim ist to explore the possessive connotation of the love in the Possession as the author believes that…

“scientific” history, against E. H. Carr's views. Elton wrote his 1967 book The Practice of History largely in response to Carr's What is History?. In fact, Elton was a strong defender of the traditional methods of history and was appalled by postmodernism, once intoning on the subject: “... we are fighting for the lives of innocent young people beset by devilish tempters who claim to offer higher forms of thought and deeper truths and insights – the intellectual equivalent of crack, in fact.…

Society as a whole is so obscure that there is no single idea or theory that could explain the true nature of the world we live in. The differing approaches within sociology attempt to provide an explanation for human behaviour and how social structures in society operate (Fulcher and Scott, 2011). However, each of these sociological perspectives have different beliefs and can often come into conflict with one another. For example, Marxism and functionalism are both modernist theories relating…

because of the glorification of war. This is seen when Tim O’Brien the character is aware of the fact that there is a possibility he could die in combat, however he knows that his memories will not go with him. O’Brien used a style typical of postmodernism, by creating somewhat of a paradox and changing the reader 's understanding of what is true to represent awareness of mortality. This novel should be taught until the year 2075 because it shows society through the eyes of a solider. This is of…

POST MODERN FEMINIST REVERBERATION Contemporary Feminism has taken a glide towards a faith that there can’t be a widespread, unitary definition of Feminism. The series of female experiences is diverse enough to give Rise to the concept of numerous selves which decline to be expounding in particular or common terms. It is here that Feminism connects hands with Post-modernism which compete huge Structures and unitary definitions. It supports different point of view, open endings and vagueness…

Many observers believe that George Wallace was the present reemergence of Huey Long, while others believe that George Wallace was a populist who made his own decisions and differed from Huey Long’s approach of handling issues. Although George Wallace incorporated similar populist tactics of being opinionated and outspoken, Wallace was not a Huey Long. Wallace was his own entity, engaging in segregation politics that hindered the progression of the civil rights movement, playing off southern…

The final issue that this paper will explore is the power-relation dynamic and its impact on gender. This section will look at how things like assumed gender roles and strictly defined gender relationships reinforce the power imbalance that exists between men and women in society. For example, gender roles are defined as the “behaviours, tasks, and responsibilities that a society considers appropriate for men, women, boys and girls” (fao.org, 2015). Separating the ‘behaviour, tasks, and…

Analysis of ”Slaughterhouse-Five,” A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut “Slaughterhouse-Five,” the magnum opus of famed American author Kurt Vonnegut, is an inconsistently narrated story that could be interpreted to explain many different aspects of life, ultimately settling on the dominant theme of uncontrollable fate and the lack of free will humans have over their own eventual demises. Vonnegut writes the story from multiple perspectives—initially telling the story of the unnamed narrator, who then…

motive in writing this novel wasn’t just to present to us the confined life of a high-society housewife, or to explore homosexuality or feminism, but to take the reader on a psychological journey that takes postmodernism and realism to a new level which hadn’t been portrayed in Victorian novels. She helped to pioneer the writing style known as stream of consciousness, and this technique is present in the text of Mrs.…

Research Note #2: “The Most Photographed Barn in America” Paragraph A: In this passage extracted from the novel White Noise, the author, Don Dellilo describes Jack and Murray’s visit to a tourist attraction known as the most photographed barn in America to exhibit the significance of perception in addition to humanity’s lack of awareness regarding reification. The first paragraph establishes the scene in a countryside with a “MOST PHOTOGRAPHED BARN IN AMERICA” sign, the presence of animals and…