postmodernism in English

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a late-20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism and has at its heart a general distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as a problematical relationship with any notion of “art.”.
One way to get out of the ‘postmodernism’ hole is to think about postmodernity rather than postmodernism .

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1. Modernism, Postmodernism & Contemporaneity

2. Blushing at the practical limitations of naked postmodernism, …

3. Gaming as Complicitous Critique: Postmodernism, Metafiction, and Video Games

4. The triumph of postmodernism, at least in the west, has been a Pyrrhic victory.

5. 16 With the essence of difference and multiplex, postmodernism becomes the origin and basis of multiculturalism.

6. 10 Postmodernism points to a more organic, less differentiated enclave of organization than those dominated by the bureaucratic designs of modernity.

7. Baroque recitative and montage technique account for each other to predominate the entire poem, projecting a bizarre vista of postmodernism.

8. In academia, its traditional positions are threatened on one side by the dominance of mainstream economics and organizational behaviour, and on the other by postmodernism.

9. Correct understanding of the influence of postmodernism is of vital importance to our inheritance of tradition, realization of modernization and building of a tuneful and civilized socialism.

10. Kurt Vonnegut, a famous American writer of the 20(th) century, uses both stream of consciousness of modernism and black humor of postmodernism in writing his slaughterhouse-Five.

11. 1997, Daniel Price, Without a Woman to Read: Toward the Daughter in Postmodernism: [ …] this book, with its multiple trajectories and frequently violent juxtapositions, is the record, in many senses, of those Bouncings.

12. However, according to the background of Chinese culture, the new history novels can partly absorb or"misapprehend"western postmodernism. For this reason we can say that the new history novels absorbs...

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14. 5 He thought that on the way to postmodernism, only through patricide, or rebellion against Brecht, could a kind of theatre that keeps abreast of the times and conforms to reality be created.

15. Admittedly, the artist avails himself of a postmodernism that tends to integrate all streams as bare witnesses the presence of figurative and non-figurative elements, women with lascivious faces, sinuous lines and the juxtaposition of vibrant hues and gilding.

16. And Slavoj Zizek's Theory of FilmLooking Awryfrom Hitler to HeimatFirst As Tragedy, Then As FarceViolenceLike a Thief in Broad DaylightTarrying with the NegativeThe Sublime Object of IdeologyHegel in A Wired BrainWelcome to the Desert of the RealFor They Know Not what They DoCritiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of

17. He scowled, grumbled, turned his Bandanaed head away, as if to say, “Don’t make me reconsider my firm prejudices.” Of course, Wallace was using Leyner as a way of marking his own difference from American postmodernism, never mind that his early work and even Jest scream “Pynchon! Barth!”

18. Postmodernism says that it is impossible to objectively Adjudicate between competing truth claims.: Le postmodernisme affirme qu'il est impossible de juger objectivement entre deux affirmations de vérité contradictoires.: The transparency of courts is particularly relevant when courts exercise judicial control of government action or investigate and Adjudicate politically important cases.

19. JM: And overall, the account copes with an unsteady tension between constituencies: not only between Byzantinists as believers or faith-sympathetic antiquarians and functionally atheist modernists, but also between a classic-cum-modern position and a postmodernism that has become so doctrinaire that a law might have been passed condemning monotheistic religion as oppressive meta-narrative.