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Journal articles on the topic "American Postmodernism"

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Manning, Susan. "Reggie Wilson and the Traditions of American Dance." TDR/The Drama Review 59, no. 1 (March 2015): 12–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00425.

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The significance of Reggie Wilson’s research-to-performance method within the canons of American dance arises from the way his distinctive approach confounds critical categories, blurring the divide between Black Dance and black postmodernism. Is his work too postmodernist for advocates of Black Dance and too Black for advocates of postmodernism?

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Matei, Alexandru. "Post-modern-east ou comment peut-on être « post-moderniste sans post-modernité » et sans Lyotard ?" Interlitteraria 26, no. 1 (August 31, 2021): 324–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/il.2021.26.1.22.

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The Post-Modern East, or How Can We Be ‘Post-Modern without Postmodernity’ and without Lyotard? Despite the idea of the universality of ‘postmodernism’ as a new stage in the Western World, it is now clear that the term was coined, launched, adopted or rejected differently in different places, along local historical lines. Hence, we have not only an American and a European postmodernism, but also an East European postmodernism, what we shall call the Post-Modern East. We delineate its characteristics based on a survey that looked at how East European cultures adopted and discussed postmodernism around the moment that their socialist regimes were collapsing. We focus the analysis on a particular but synthetising version of the ‘postmodern’, specifically that of Lyotard. We hold that Lyotard is one of the few intellectuals who succeeded in thinking of politics, sociology, epistemology and aesthetics as tying together to form ‘postmodernity’; and that a few European intellectuals were ready to think of ‘postmodernity’ an epistemic challenge, beyond the distinction between soft and hard sciences. A fortiori, Eastern European cultures seized ‘postmodernism’ as an American fetish and identified the breakdown of totalitarianism as the achievement of happy ‘postmodernisation’. Thirty years later, these countries have realised that by embracing a certain version of ‘postmodern’, as they had done by the end of the 1980s, was generally a mimetic utopian gesture that needs revaluation.

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Savvas, Theophilus, and Christopher K. Coffman. "American fiction after postmodernism." Textual Practice 33, no. 2 (February 7, 2019): 195–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2018.1505322.

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Khan, Mehwish Ali, and Fouzia Rehman Khan. "Intertextual Elements Highlighting the Postmodernist Features of Tangled (2010)." Global Language Review IV, no. II (December 30, 2019): 50–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2019(iv-ii).08.

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The present study focuses on one of the contemporary American fairy tale movies to analyze the postmodernist aspects present in these movies. The researcher has selected the movie Tangled released in 2010 for this purpose, it is a remake of the famous fairy tale Rapunzel recorded by famous fairy tale writers, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. One of the most prominent patterns of analyzing the movies through the lens of postmodernism is the framework by Kevin Paul Smith, in his book The Postmodern Fairytale, Folkloric Intertexts in Contemporary Fiction. He has presented eight elements of intertextuality to examine the intertextual elements of the older fairy tales present in contemporary literature (2007). Analysis reveals these eight elements in Tangled (2010) that are evident in traces of postmodernity in the movie.

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Lushnikova, Galina I., and Tatiana Yu Osadchaia. "CONTAMINATION OF POSTMODERNIST AND POST-POSTMODERNIST TENDENCIES IN THE WORKS BY J. FRANZEN." Philological Class 26, no. 2 (2021): 200–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.51762/1fk-2021-26-02-17.

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The study focuses on the manifestation of the main literary trends – postmodernism and post-postmodernism – in the novels of the contemporary American writer J. Franzen, which has determined the purpose of the paper – to identify, characterize and analyze the leading features of the new literary tendencies that have obtained original interpretation in the writer’s literary creative activity. The article gives a brief overview of philosophical, cultural and literary criticism studies of both home and foreign scholars, which describe the vectors of development of the literary process at the present stage, pose various hypotheses with reference to the definition of these vectors, characterize them and suggest new terms for their nomination. The postmodernist and post-postmodernist tendencies are explored on the concrete material of the novels The Corrections and Purity by J. Franzen, in which they receive original interpretation and serve the purpose of impersonating the author’s ideas, unfolding the main themes, creating the characters and expressing the narration modality. The key method of research used in this paper is the method of interpretive analysis, which involves identifying content and semantic dominants and interpreting a work of fiction within a certain literary context, determining the inclusion of this work in the system of current literary movements and trends. The interpretive analysis of the works under investigation revealed various tendencies typical for the literary process of the post-postmodern era on the whole, the most important of which are the following: no clear distinction between postmodernism and post-postmodernism; realization and sophisticated interaction of elements of such new trends as metamodernism, cosmodernism, digimodernism, and automodernism. The results of the study can be used in literary analysis of modern fiction, and specifically in research works of different levels and in teaching at philological faculties of universities. The study argues that the novels by J. Franzen demonstrate the specific features of postmodernism and post-postmodernism, which reject the postmodernist principles and at the same time follow them, return to the realistic traditions and actualize new literary tendencies.

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Sloan, De Villo. "The Decline of American Postmodernism." SubStance 16, no. 3 (1987): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3685195.

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Chiquete, Daniel. "LATIN AMERICAN PENTECOSTALISMS AND WESTERN POSTMODERNISM." International Review of Mission 92, no. 364 (January 2003): 29–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-6631.2003.tb00380.x.

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JAMES, SAMUEL. "LOUIS MINK, “POSTMODERNISM”, AND THE VOCATION OF HISTORIOGRAPHY." Modern Intellectual History 7, no. 1 (February 26, 2010): 151–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1479244309990308.

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This essay reconstructs the intellectual development of the philosopher of history Louis O. Mink Jr, in order to illuminate the philosophical background to “postmodernism” in American historical epistemology. From around 1970, Mink was a prominent and influential defender of the view that historical narratives were imaginative constructions rather than representations of past actuality. This has since been understood as a characteristically postmodern view. Mink's wider sensibility, however, is better described as modernist than postmodernist. The crucial context for his philosophy was a hostility to “positivism” going back to his graduate years at Yale, and his epistemological views were of a piece with a defence of historical understanding as both distinctive and valuable. In both respects Mink was influenced by the philosophy of R. G. Collingwood, while he was himself an important influence on Hayden White. Mink's case therefore helps bridge the gap between interwar and later twentieth-century versions of Anglophone historical contructivism, while drawing attention to some cultural contexts in which the development of both modernist and postmodernist views of historiography must be understood.

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Garcia-Moreno, Laura, John Beverley, Jose Oviedo, Desiderio Navarro, George Yudice, Jean Franco, and Juan Flores. "Situating Knowledges: Latin American Readings of Postmodernism." Diacritics 25, no. 1 (1995): 63. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/465365.

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Damon, Maria, and Aldon Lynn Nielsen. "Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism." Chicago Review 44, no. 1 (1998): 138. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25304258.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "American Postmodernism"

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Cagney-Watts, Helen. "The contradictions of postmodernism : a feminist critique of postmodernism." Thesis, University of Hull, 1991. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:6975.

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Tracey, Thomas. "David Foster Wallace : American literature after postmodernism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.543596.

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Coughran, Christopher John. "Literary ecology and the fiction of American postmodernism /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18752.pdf.

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Gorelova, Olena. "Postmodernism, Native American literature and issues of sovereignty." Thesis, Montana State University, 2009. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2009/gorelova/GorelovaO0509.pdf.

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Criticism of Native American literature is barely two centuries old, while criticism of Western literature boasts a history that is quite a bit longer. The questions on how to read and interpret tribal narrative and modern American Indian fiction are still urgent topics that trigger numerous debates among literary scholars. What theories to employ and what approaches to use to dispel misinterpretations of the literature are still matters open to suggestion. Postmodernism, the new world trend, has influenced all spheres of life, not excluding literature. Although it does seem to better account for American Indian voices as it shifts attention to local narratives and re-evaluation of history, the issue of whether it is applicable and favorable to Native American literature and its cause is a debatable one. Postmodern theory claims to liberate the suppressed voices including those of Native Americans, but at the same time presents the danger of limiting Native American literature to another set of frames while denying it its purpose, i.e. achievement of the establishment of Native American national literature. Many American Indian scholars insist that American Indian literature should not be interpreted using mainstream approaches, such as postmodernism, since they have already done enough damage, but implementing American Indian philosophies instead, such as nationalism. It also seems premature to apply postmodern theory since it deconstructs history and identity, which are still to be constructed in Native American literature. Tribal literature and tribal realities are closely connected and, therefore, the fight for Native American literature and how to interpret it appears to be a part of a bigger fight, the one for sovereignty, both national and intellectual. The "post" of postmodernism, as well as the "post" of post-colonialism, might simply not be present for Native American literature yet and, therefore, theories offered by nationalism can at the given moment be more promising to American Indian literature and its purposes.

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Mason, Francis Andrew. "Narrative and postmodernism : politics and contemporary American fiction." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386656.

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Ma, Ming-Qian. "Poetry as re-reading : American Avant-garde poetry and the poetics of counter-method /." Evanston Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2008. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0809/2008000308-t.html.

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Dale, Daniel. "Beyond the Textual: Multimodal Print Fiction, Postmodernism, and Digital Literacies." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522319323132118.

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Harker, Ben. "Critical oppositions : realism, postmodernism and the reception of contemporary American fiction." Thesis, University of York, 2000. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10885/.

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Harbord, Janet. "Margins of (t)error : film, postmodernism and the ideology of signification." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.295764.

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This thesis is an examination of the intersection of mainstream American film, and postmodern theories of changes in economic and cultural formations, read through the prism of feminist discourse. The work examines the genre of postmodern film developed by mainstream American studios over the past ten years, asking questions of what a postmodern film text may mean, and how it relates to postmodern theory. The thesis presents the analysis in two parts in each section, the first a discussion of particular aspects of postmodern theory, the second a close textual reading of two films. The claims of postmodernism for a theory and culture that celebrates diversity and rejects hierarchy are countered by various analyses from cultural materialism, feminism and ethnography. The methodology of film analysis is derived from what has become an orthodox feminist film theory developed in the last twenty years in Screen. The first section examines the imaging of technology and mass consumption in the work of Baudr i Ll.a r d , Jameson and Lyotard, and in the genre of the horror film. The second section explores claims of the deconstruction of structures that determine what is regarded as culturally central and what is regarded as culturally marginal. The discussion focusses on two areas; the positioning of the Third lvorld subject in postmodern debate. Secondly, the fetishisation of others - here the black subject as representation, and the marginalisation of marginal groups from cultural production. The third section examines the process of reading and the interpellation of the subject into the (visual or written) text. Questions here address the theoretical model of subjectivity in postmodern texts, and the framework of enunciation in cinema. The last section problematises the figurative language of postmodernism, drawing out the implications of a language and imagery of violence and apocalypse, and suggests a politics of positionality for future discussion.

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Sutton, Malcolm. "Ontologies of Community in Postmodernist American Fiction." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20695.

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Using a number of structurally innovative novels from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s as a basis for study, this dissertation examines the representation of communities in postmodernist American fiction. While novels have often been critically studied from the standpoint of the individual and society, here the often neglected category of community is put under scrutiny. Yet rather than considering it from a sociological point of view, which can potentially favour historical, economic or political grounds for community, this study focuses on the ontological binds formed between individual and community. On one level this study connects formal qualities of postmodernist novels to a representation of community – especially literary conventions from the past that are foregrounded in the present texts. On another level it interrogates the limits of the individual in relation to others – how we emerge from others, how we are discrete from others, how much we can actually share with others, at what cost we stay or break with the others who have most influenced us. The primary novels studied here, each of which is deeply invested in the community as a locus for ontological interrogation, are Robert Coover’s "Gerald’s Party" (1985) and "John’s Wife" (1996), Gilbert Sorrentino’s "Crystal Vision" (1981) and "Odd Number" (1985), Harry Mathews’s "Cigarettes" (1987), Joseph McElroy’s "Women and Men" (1987), and Toni Morrison’s "Paradise" (1997). Despite their varied representations of and attitudes toward the individual in community, these texts share a common spectre of American Romanticism that inflects how we read the possibility of community in the postmodernist period.

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Books on the topic "American Postmodernism"

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Alsen, Eberhard. Romantic postmodernism in American fiction. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996.

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Nickel, Patricia Mooney, ed. North American Critical Theory After Postmodernism. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137262868.

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Black chant: Languages of African-American postmodernism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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Clewell, Tammy. Mourning, modernism, postmodernism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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Clewell, Tammy. Mourning, modernism, postmodernism. Basingstoke [England]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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Mourning, modernism, postmodernism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American narratives. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2013.

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Signs and cities: Black literary postmodernism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

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The theater of transformation: Postmodernism in American drama. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003.

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Kušnír, Jaroslav. American fiction: modernism-postmodernism, popular culture, and metafiction. Stuttgart: Ibidem, 2005.

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Book chapters on the topic "American Postmodernism"

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Branscome, Eva. "On an American stage." In Hans Hollein and Postmodernism, 104–36. New York: Routledge, 2017.: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315586168-4.

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Nickel, Patricia Mooney. "North American Critical Theory after Postmodernism." In North American Critical Theory After Postmodernism, 1–13. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137262868_1.

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Ortega, Julio. "4.2.1. Postmodernism in Spanish-American Writing." In Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, 315. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/chlel.xi.38ort.

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Savvas, Theophilus. "Conclusion: Moving on from Postmodernism." In American Postmodernist Fiction and the Past, 156–63. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230307780_7.

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Peters, Michael A. "Obama's 'Postmodernism', Humanism and History." In Obama and The End of the American Dream, 67–75. Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-84-6091-771-4_9.

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Peters, Michael A. "Obama's 'Postmodernism', Humanism and History." In Obama and The End of the American Dream, 67–75. Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-771-4_9.

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Nickel, Patricia Mooney. "Epilogue." In North American Critical Theory After Postmodernism, 201–4. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137262868_10.

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Luke, Timothy W. "Timothy W. Luke." In North American Critical Theory After Postmodernism, 14–41. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137262868_2.

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Kellner, Douglas. "Douglas Kellner." In North American Critical Theory After Postmodernism, 42–61. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137262868_3.

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Calhoun, Craig. "Craig Calhoun." In North American Critical Theory After Postmodernism, 62–87. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137262868_4.

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Conference papers on the topic "American Postmodernism"

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Ciugureanu, Adina. "INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO CITYSPACE: FROM THE POSTMODERN TO THE GLOBAL CITY." In GEOLINKS International Conference. SAIMA Consult Ltd, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.32008/geolinks2020/b2/v2/32.

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Cityspace has been the topic of urban and cultural studies for at least two decades and has opened a variety of ways to approach the city, from historical and cultural perspectives to socio-geographical, economic, religious, literary, postmodernist, post-colonial and, more recently, geo-critical ones. The article looks at the European and American city from the 1970s to the present through the lenses offered by the theoretical approaches by Edward Soja, David Harvey, Michel Foucault, Frederick Jameson, Bertrand Westphal, Manuel Castells, among others, while highlighting the specific characteristics of cityspace and citizenship, the use and misuse of living and imagined spaces in the period mentioned above. The shift from the modern city to the postmodern metropolis and global megalopolis has entailed essential changes in the views on cityspace both from the architectural perspective and from the city dweller’s perception of space in the city. How these changes have affected our lives and what the city of the future will look like are two core questions this article attempts to answer.

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Reports on the topic "American Postmodernism"

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Williams, Miranda, Anne Mitchell, and Nancy Hodges. The American Lolita Subculture: An Exploration of Self-Authentication, Postmodernism, and Social Belonging. Ames: Iowa State University, Digital Repository, November 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.31274/itaa_proceedings-180814-103.

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