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Essay

Literature

Postmodern Literature Final in Terms of the

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Length: 3 Pages
Type: Essay

Postmodern Literature Final In terms of the use of experimental techniques in the assigned readings this semester, I think I would judge Vonnegut to be the best and Ishmael…

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Term Paper

Literature

Mode Postmodern Literature Two Examples

Words: 1734
Length: 6 Pages
Type: Term Paper

The second half, entitled "Airborne Toxic Event, however, serves the role of criticizing the reality of American society and the result of its obsession with consumerism. In the second…

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Thesis

Literature

Romantic Modern and Postmodern Literature

Words: 1607
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Thesis

" (Hendricks) Truth and culture are therefore seen to be created and destroyed by others for their own ends. In conclusion, the three literary works discussed above are in…

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Annotated Bibliography

Literature

literature and religion annotated bibliography

Words: 852
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Annotated Bibliography

Religion features prominently as a theme in literature. In fact, some of the earliest works of literature are rooted in their religious and cultural traditions, including the ancient literatures…

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Essay

Literature

Postmodern Book Proposal Colson Whitehead's John Henry

Words: 664
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Essay

Postmodern Book: Proposal Colson hitehead's John Henry Days explores the relationship between fact and fiction with a postmodern narrative structure. One of the characteristics of postmodernism is the way…

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Term Paper

Art  (general)

Postmodern the Term 'Post Modernism' Has Emerged

Words: 3000
Length: 7 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Postmodern The term 'Post modernism' has emerged as a real area of academic study only from the middle of the 1980's onwards. It is a complicated and a complex…

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Term Paper

Black Studies - Philosophy

Postmodern Philosophy Philosophers Over the

Words: 1980
Length: 7 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Jean-Francois Lyotard (the Postmodern condition: A Knowledge eport 1979) describes postmodernism in the context of nature of social bond. He argues that due to the advent of the technology…

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Essay

Drama - World

Gravity's Rainbow and Other Cold War Literature and Film

Words: 2703
Length: 8 Pages
Type: Essay

Cold War dominated American culture, consciousness, politics and policy for most of the 20th century. Even after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which symbolized the fall of the…

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Term Paper

Psychology

Postmodern and Family System Theory Approach

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Length: 7 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Counselling Theories Postmodern and Family System Theory Approach There have been significant interest in research on the problems of addiction; hence, the many scientific studies on the issue. Many…

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Term Paper

Animals

Postmodern Fiction

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Length: 3 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson [...] importance of trees in the novel. While this novel chronicles the life of Isobel Fairfax, trees form the very roots of the novel,…

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Term Paper

Literature

Pervasive Philosophies Behind Many Postmodern Forms of

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Length: 5 Pages
Type: Term Paper

pervasive philosophies behind many postmodern forms of art and literature is the idea that human identities are defined more by their social circumstances than by any universal truths. The…

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Chapter

Psychology

Combination of Modern and Postmodern Bereavement Theory Explain and Contrast

Words: 5009
Length: 15 Pages
Type: Chapter

Postmodern Bereavement Theory Bereavement is a universal observable fact as every human being experiences the loss of a loved one at some point in his/her life. However, every individual…

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4 Pages
Essay

Literature

romantic era poems and literature

Words: 1347
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Essay

1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge relies on rich multisensory imagery to achieve poetic goals in “Kubla Khan.” The sensory imagery Coleridge uses anchors the poem within the genre of Romanticism,…

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Term Paper

Sports - Women

Feminist Therapy and Postmodern Approaches

Words: 1662
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Term Paper

A teen might be asked to tell their own story from the point-of-view of other people they know, looking at themselves from other viewpoints. These clients are freed to…

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Term Paper

Music

Music Art and Literature

Words: 1227
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Music, Art, Literature Trends From impressionism to pop art, jazz to hip hop, science fiction to beat poetry, artistic, musical, and literary expressions have varied considerably between 1870 and…

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Case Study

Business - Advertising

Consumers in Virtual Worlds Literature Review

Words: 599
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Case Study

Consumers in Virtual orlds Literature Review / Theoretical Framework: The article in the journal Marketing Intelligence & Planning points to how marketing research is becoming more pivotal to companies…

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9 Pages
Term Paper

Mythology - Religion

Postmodernist Literature Discuss the Representation

Words: 3083
Length: 9 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Yarbrough quotes Ihab Hassan, who describes postmodernism as the "literature of silence" in that it "communicates only with itself," a reference that initially astounds the rational mind. Then, reading…

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9 Pages
Essay

Leadership

Analyzing Crime in Literature and Film

Words: 2995
Length: 9 Pages
Type: Essay

Crime in Literature and Film "Red Dragon" by Thomas Harris and "Manhunter" by Michael Mann The original version of the novel red dragon was written by Thomas Harris in…

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Essay

Literature

Ben Jonson Intertextualities The Influence

Words: 22973
Length: 80 Pages
Type: Essay

" James a.S. McPeek further blames Jonson for this corruption: "No one can read this dainty song to Celia without feeling that Jonson is indecorous in putting it in…

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6 Pages
Research Paper

Literature

Paranoia and Thomas Pynchon Bleeding Edge

Words: 1740
Length: 6 Pages
Type: Research Paper

Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge One hallmark of postmodern literature is a willingness to mingle high and low registers, and to subvert popular and recognizable genres of literature with material…

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Essay

Literature

Julian Barnes Wiki Project Julian

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Length: 3 Pages
Type: Essay

) Talking It Over has also been adapted for the stage, appearing in Chicago and Slovenia; a stage version of Arthur & George recently closed at the Birmingham Repertory…

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Reaction Paper

Film

Jim Carrey S Acting Chops

Words: 906
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Reaction Paper

Truman Show is unequivocally a postmodern text. The only facet of this production that makes it slightly less unconventionally postmodern is the fact that it is a movie instead…

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5 Pages
Term Paper

Literature

Death of the Author by

Words: 1759
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Human emotions and values are detached and unreal in this work, as well. Pynchon paints vivid pictures of the characters, but they are all flawed, somehow. Oedipa is married…

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7 Pages
Book Report

Literature

Sleepy Hollow as Popular Culture

Words: 3045
Length: 7 Pages
Type: Book Report

First, evil in Sleepy Hollow is more equating with a satirical view that, in this case, evil is a more benign humor, bumbling, caustic in disrupting the town, and,…

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20 Pages
Essay

Literature

Pessoa the Philosophies Embodied in

Words: 6419
Length: 20 Pages
Type: Essay

" (Gibbs 226) Alvardo de Campos is a naval engineer by profession and while his earlier writings are positive, his work develops characteristics of existential angst. Furthermore, what is…

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5 Pages
Term Paper

Literature

Djuna Barnes' Nightwood

Words: 1902
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes [...] justify the book as a postmodern novel. "Nightwood" is a postmodern novel in every respect, from the stream-of-consciousness style of writing to the underlying…

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Essay

Literature

Kurt Vonnegut Billy Pilgrim and

Words: 1460
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Essay

This author used them to see how Kurt Vonnegut is post-modernist. Barry begins in number one by asking how authors discover postmodernist themes and attitudes. In the observation, postmodernists…

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Term Paper

Literature

Carnival Culture Twitchell Has a

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Length: 2 Pages
Type: Term Paper

And perhaps worst of all are books like Chicken Soup for the Soul, which are usually given as graduation gifts or gifts given to a person undergoing a difficult…

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Essay

Literature

Eternal Child Adults Tend Not to Take

Words: 1814
Length: 6 Pages
Type: Essay

Eternal Child Adults tend not to take the truly important things seriously. This is as terrible a flaw in the adult world as the fact that adults also take…

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Term Paper

Literature

Characteristic About Hiromi Goto's Book

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Length: 3 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Muriel, the third and youngest generation only speaks English; she didn't grow up with a Japanese mentality because her parents did their best to leave their cultural heritage behind…

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Essay

Literature

Filmmakers From Two Different Eras Used to

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Length: 9 Pages
Type: Essay

Filmmakers From Two Different Eras Used to Portray Subjects and Ideas The focus of the research in this study is the techniques utilized by filmmakers from the classical and…

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7 Pages
Term Paper

Literature

Compare 2 Stories

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Length: 7 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Poe and Fowles Detective stories and novels were first created in the 1800s. eaders continue to enjoy them. Even today, 150 years later, millions of people across the world…

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Research Proposal

Literature

different points of view

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Length: 15 Pages
Type: Research Proposal

Eat, Pray, Love Into the Wild Motorcycle Diaries Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Theories/ Frameworks epresentation from Media Studies -- Culture and its elevance…

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Research Proposal

Literature

Crying of Lot 49 Thomas

Words: 573
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Research Proposal

The first comes with the name of the main character, Oedipa, a play on the famous Oedipus. Part of Oedipus's destiny is related to his capacity to solve several…

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17 Pages
Research Proposal

Literature

Faulkner and Time Fragmented Time

Words: 6888
Length: 17 Pages
Type: Research Proposal

Reading The Sound and the Fury can be frustrating for the reader, particularly the reader who is used to the linear march of time and the orderly unfolding of…

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Research Paper

Literature

Hyperrealism as Seen Through Libra

Words: 2210
Length: 7 Pages
Type: Research Paper

Hyperrealism in Literature The following criticism was made by Michael izza on Don DeLillo's Libra: In Libra, Don DeLillo offers solace for the issue of achieving historical certainty; however,…

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Essay

Literature

Barth Lity Hello My Name Is Fadi

Words: 2993
Length: 9 Pages
Type: Essay

Barth, LITY) Hello, my name is Fadi Awwad. Apologies for the late submission -- for some reason the due date was not showing on my Blackboard! The most recent…

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5 Pages
Term Paper

Literature

Road Movies Tale of Two

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Length: 5 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Clarence and Alabama are capable of finding some sense of mirrored self in the eyes and common quest provided by relationship with another, and it is worth remembering that…

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Essay

Literature

Salinger Is an American Literary Treasure Best

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Length: 5 Pages
Type: Essay

Salinger is an American literary treasure, best known for his novella Catcher in the ye. However, Catcher in the ye is but one of many in the canon of…

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Article Critique

Literature

Infinity Breeds Contempt The Social

Words: 4780
Length: 15 Pages
Type: Article Critique

Malone dies just as he finally does away with the alternate identities of his storytelling, such that he can be seen as 'becoming Malone' at the same moment of…

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Research Paper

Literature

Room of One's Own

Words: 1474
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Research Paper

Literary realism, of course, focuses on the everyday cultural experience of everyday people who may, within their banal experience, do extraordinary things. The Postmodern movement, as a reaction to…

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Term Paper

Literature

History in Three Keys Cohen

Words: 1518
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Term Paper

" However, as strange as these ideas may be to a modern reader or historian, that is all the more reason to demand the rigorous perspective demanded by Cohen.…

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Essay

Literature

Exploring Gothic Fiction

Words: 2498
Length: 8 Pages
Type: Essay

Gothic Fiction Dracula is a far more traditional Gothic novel in the classic sense than the four books of the Twilight series, in which Bella Swan and her vampire…

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Essay

Literature

Freak Show in From Stage to Page

Words: 594
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Essay

Freak Show In "From Stage to Page: Franz Kafka, Djuna Barnes, and Modernism's Freak Fictions," Blyn argues, "we can find direct links between Kafka's and Barnes's notoriously opaque fictions…

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Term Paper

Literature

Career - How Do His Late Stories

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Length: 2 Pages
Type: Term Paper

career - how do his late stories differ from his early stories? AYMOND CAVE'S WOK aymond Carver wrote from the time he was a young man until his death…

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Term Paper

Literature

Michael Cunningham Virginia Woolf

Words: 961
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Hours In her novel "Mrs. Dalloway," Virginia Woolf demonstrated a distinctly modern style as she revealed the dynamics of perception rather than simply writing another "conventional" story, like many…

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Book Review

Literature

Mark Leyner's Postmodernism

Words: 580
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Book Review

Mark Leyner Hey-I know this looks long, but it's about 1200 words without the two long quotations from the book. So it's actually the right length according to the…

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5 Pages
Term Paper

Mythology - Religion

Eye Opening Experience the Rime

Words: 1842
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Apart from taking an authoritative role in the Symposium, many people consider her to be behind the doubts of her existence. She passes her wisdom to Socrates who in…

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Article Critique

Literature

Foucault and Derrida in Samuel

Words: 4937
Length: 18 Pages
Type: Article Critique

The panopticon centralizes the space of the observer while simultaneously mystifying the act of observation, such that the threat may be ever-present even if an actual prison guard is…

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Term Paper

Literature

Postcolonial Theory on Imperialism JM Coetzee and Edward Said

Words: 1908
Length: 6 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Postcolonial Theory on Imperialism The Strains of Living in a Postcolonial orld In the wake of Colonialism and Imperialism, much of the world still finds itself in pieces --…

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Term Paper

Literature

What Does Marriage Mean

Words: 556
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Marriage and Marital Relationships according to Octavia Butler and Alejo Carpentier Literature has functioned, over time, as the 'reflector' of the social realities that people experience in society. Works…

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Term Paper

Literature

Italo Calvino's the Castle of Crossed Destinies

Words: 1794
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Italo Cavino Historians differ on the origin of tarot cards. Most believe that Egypt was the first to use similar images and symbols. Tarot is also represented from the…

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Term Paper

Literature

Voltaire's Book Candide

Words: 1514
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Candide In his signature work Candide, French author Voltaire offers an extensive criticism of seventeenth and eighteenth-century social, cultural, and political realities. Aiming the brunt of his satirical attack…

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Term Paper

Literature

Shakespeare's Women There Is a

Words: 1536
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Term Paper

ork Cited Antony and Cleopatra. Retrieved September 30, 2005 from: http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/cleopatra/full.html Brown, Lenora Inez. "Enter the Body: omen and Representation on Shakespeare's Stage." American Theatre. May 01, 2001. Retrieved…

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Term Paper

Literature

Magical Realism in Ana Castillo's Novel'so Far From God

Words: 4294
Length: 13 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Magical Realism in Ana Castillo's 'So Far From God' hen looking for the magical realism in Ana Castillo's So Far From God, and for those readers who know her…

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Term Paper

Literature

Proust and Narrativity We Read Marcel Proust's

Words: 3396
Length: 13 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Proust and Narrativity We read Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time - that greatest work of his the title of which is more commonly translated as Remembrance of…

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Essay

Literature

Big Aims it Has Been

Words: 825
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Essay

So he does just that, and does just that. he story is telling for a number of reasons. First it speaks to a particularly kind of sickness in the…

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Term Paper

Literature

Mythical Analysis Myths of Freedom

Words: 1052
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Term Paper

"In eloved, Morrison allows the reader to share the legacy of slavery as the characters Sethe, Paul D, and Denver attempt to make a new life in freedom. However,…

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Term Paper

Literature

Hero Does it Depend on Whether One

Words: 1296
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Term Paper

hero? Does it depend on whether one is a man or a woman? Is the nature of heroism engendered? Are there different categories of heroism - a heroism of…

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Term Paper

Literature

Mass Culture and Popular Culture and Studying Bestsellers Books

Words: 1710
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Mass Culture and Popular Culture and Studying Bestsellers Books This paper takes into account the differences in the best sellers written in the 1980's and in the 1990's. It…

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