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Sentence Examples If The Fourth Man leaves us steeped in irony, as a properly postmodern parody of an art film should do, then it also leaves us with a problem. The result is winning, shimmering pop that sounds quaint and postmodern, sternly Teutonic and curiously homely at the same time. More specifically, it is closer to the postmodern procedural model of deconstruction. Opposed is the apparent liberalism, individualism and anarchy on offer in a postmodern world. Their essays suggest why African Americans have special stakes in the postmodern revaluation of modern paradigms. It could be argued that the earlier, revisionist westerns act as precursors of the postmodern westerns we see today. Many of the works on the political side of the spectrum relied on fragmentation, appropriation and postmodern distancing to make their points. Given these changes, it would seem logical that the survey would become an obsolete, archaic technology in a postmodern world. Following the logic of postmodern criticism, we could assume a level of ironic distance. It's said that the mainstream media is increasingly dominated by corporate interests, political spin, and bread and circuses postmodern pap. The film has been praised as postmodern pastiche and an Australian musical which can be seen to Australianize the form. It's a postmodern melding of elements that could easily have made this music before his sampling and mixing. If, however, you like your comedy no more postmodern than a saucy seaside postcard, read on. Nelson is emasculated by postmodern and postcolonial theories, which call his white maleness into question. Any collaboration between a ballet dancer and a postmodern choreographer unleashes a Pandora's box of stylistic dilemmas. This essay is indebted to the postmodern thinkers who have developed these theories. For Anderson, postmodern thought has a structural relation to French Marxist politics. It deals in postmodern layers of textuality and reality, and as far as I can tell, leaves many of these issues open. This is not, we hasten to say, because the film is deliberately cold and self-referential in a postmodern fashion. Fiction writers were influenced by the postmodern fabulism and metafiction of North and South America. Show More Sentences The result has been a number of works of art in the distinctively postmodern genre of historiographical metafiction. In the wider postmodern literature, especially in Anglo-Saxon countries, the term metanarrative continues to be extensively employed. Jacqueline Rose asks an extremely pertinent question of Jameson's totalizing account of postmodern schizophrenic subjectivity. Relaxed into a postmodern shapelessness, however, the poetry lacks the form that gave high modern poets such magnificent bearing. Beneath the postmodern gloss of its bright shiny surfaces lies a cleverly disguised core of rational modernity. Anthropology, both in its American and British versions, while much richer in its theoretical practices, has succumbed to a postmodern tribalism. The book is a postmodern tragic comedy about a sweet Californian dreamer who meets a mollydook mystic in a sleepy village on the North Coast. If this step from monotheism to monism goes too far, in what ways can Judaism respond to a postmodern desire for Oneness? I do not think it takes a radical postmodern turn of mind to conclude we cannot reliably write much about the the mind. The postmodern media critic once asserted that this conflict did not happen, and was only a televised simulation of a war. Skeleton, which is like inverted luge, has not been a medal sport since 1948 and makes its postmodern debut this year in Salt Lake. I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I couldn't read anymore textbooks with unpronounceable words about postmodern feminism. A Novel reader might ask if the Scottish novel pushed the new narrativity that is the postmodern novel. All this postmodern self-referential ironic navel-gazing is getting a bit bizarre. A few of the usual postmodern sophists offered up a few of the usual postmodern sophistries about perfect freedom and individual will. Most critics and filmmakers acknowledge Melville's pervasive influence on postmodern noir. In the postmodern text, experiencing the sublime by vicariously transcending the self is an object of satire. These participants resorted to embracing some of the postmodern ideas but opted to maintain their religious or spiritual beliefs. In the end I think the transition won't be one from modern to postmodern but from relatively static to near constant cultural change. Show More Sentences Those of a postmodern persuasion might argue that it's okay to present a fragmented field in a fragmented way. After World War II, Scandinavian design, abstract expressionism, op art and the postmodern Memphis style were also felt. Moreover, factions within an organization may operate from a postmodern, modern, or even premodern orientation. Or maybe he subscribes to the postmodern idea that truth is a social construct. A picaresque novel with postmodern flourishes, the sinfully entertaining Zorro is serious fiction masked as a swashbuckler. A general thrust of my argument is that the postmodern turn in anthropology threatens to be a paper tiger. Identity politics, particularism, and localism against the uniformity of abstract universalism are common features of the postmodern condition. The ill-omened page of postmodern historicism has been definitively turned. Collectively, the two books make several important arguments in our consideration of plagiarism in a postmodern culture. Carlson, who embraces the postmodern emphasis on incompletion and ambiguity, asks what it would mean to name God from a Heideggerian perspective. But in the end, their decision was indubitably made easier by the more cavalier attitudes of their postmodern upbringing. First, the book is loaded with the technical and markedly inelegant jargon of postmodern philosophy. The rejection of linear time is, for many postmodern thinkers, closely interwoven with two other crucial issues. The postmodern perspective, on the other hand, views the movement of historical time to be radically contingent and unpredictable. In the prosody of the postmodern lyric sentence, the prose aspect is heightened as a continuer, the verse aspect lessened as a retarder. Most of us in the pluralist postmodern era can see that both are wonderful in different ways. Of course, this is the type of exile demanded by postmodern poetics, but in Kaminsky's hands the technique is used for humanitarian purposes. In a brilliant insight, Furedi claims that this instrumental downgrading of knowledge is just the flip side of postmodern irrationalism. Overnight, the tendency of naturalistic rationalism to decay into postmodern irrationalism became a national joke. Like other postmodern critics and theorists, he has been criticized as amoral and politically reactionary. Show More Sentences This eclecticism has often been confused with tokenism, but it speaks to the growing cultural fluidity of the postmodern times in which we live. It has been claimed that one of the traits of modern or postmodern experience is the dislodging of ideas, images and signs. Perhaps a genuine, unflinching intellectual engagement between faith and its modern and postmodern alternatives is possible. In the 1960s Slavenska opened a studio in New York that attracted many modern and postmodern dancers. Nevertheless, both society and church are changing in response to the postmodern critique of modern life. However, if modern, postmodern, and premodern forms of war overlap with each other, each mode has distinctive features. A relational theism must replace the ever-present individualism that haunts modern and postmodern North American culture. When we return to the struggle for power, it is a very modern thing, not postmodern. But if we subtract the postmodern from the modern in the United States, a large chunk of the latter remains. For some time the idea has been in the air that our situation now is not so much modern as postmodern. New York has been a kind of earth mother of modern and postmodern dance, sending her children out into the world. Much metaphysical language of the Middle Ages is incomprehensible to modern or postmodern minds. The business writer writes that we do a dis-service when we talk of managing change or talk of transitioning from modern to postmodern. He responds to mass media images and topical subjects without the irony that characterizes much postmodern mainstream art. Similarly, the contemporary detective novels of interest to us here are postmodern without being postmodernist. He launches a vicious attack in several parts of this book on postmodern literary criticism and feminist theory. Bess has little patience with postmodern, deconstructionist architects and thinkers. Reader-directed irony, that by now classical stylistic device of postmodern literature, pervades the ancient play. However, his insights demand a stronger rootedness in postmodern theories of identity and self-reflexive fiction. They build on and support changes that have been developing in critical theory during the postmodern era. Show More Sentences I listened recently to a cultural studies academic complain that postmodern theory is not taught to first-year creative writing students. This voice has been facilitated recently by postmodern movement in literary theory and practice. This helps explain why art history leapfrogged over New Criticism to postmodern doubt. Thirty years of Foucauldian postmodern critique has led to arguments that either ignore such laws or deride them as evil. There's some mild postmodern fun to be had identifying these sources, but that's hardly the point. Dotcommers, like a pack of postmodern Scrooges, had forgotten the true meaning of the New Economy. Taylor connects the postmodern obsession with the body as a form of reaction and resistance to the felt dematerialization of virtual culture. From political push polls to postmodern churches we are trying very hard to make the world around us look like what we think it should be. They never did quite process that there's a postmodern kind of human curiosity that gets pleasure out of things formerly disapproved of. As a good postmodern who just wants to know which script I'm supposed to follow as the news guides me toward what I should think, I'm confused. The challenge to the postmodern world is to get used to the idea of double standards. This conceptualization resonates with such postpositive movements in psychology as social constructionism, postmodern thought, and discursive psychology. The appeal of such stories may be explained by the need of modern or postmodern viewers to be reconnected to the roots of drama or of life itself. Moreover, the playing field has been changed in the radical postmodern hermeneutic by the denial of an objective text, and by deconstruction and the hermeneutics of suspicion. The piece moves so quickly from one disjunct fragment to the next that the resulting work couldn't be thought of as jazz, but only postmodern pastiche. The resulting piano duos are effective, referencing their sources but with a new, complex postmodern voice that moves in untraditional harmonies and rhythms. It also employs a number of new and old-fashioned genres, including the currently popular subgenre of literary detection, in the best postmodern style. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne One of the first novels in English... and a buoyant, postmodern romp. If clerking was an integral part of the emerging modern industrial order as the author asserts, then clerks were, by definition, modern not postmodern. At the outset of the 21st century, the world finds itself in a transitional phase between the modern nation-state system and postmodern forms of global governance. Show More Sentences Like punk artists, I began to draw connections and think about a postmodern world where people viewed their fears and fantasies in front of a TV screen or behind a guard rail. Following his 2002 low-budget chiller My Little Eye, British director Marc Evans revisits similar territory in this postmodern psychological chiller. It is not quite postmodern yet, but there is a movement against modernism. Released in 1996, it was a postmodern, self-aware horror movie. Synths, banjo, trumpet, and anything else found around the studio gets thrown in, creating the feeling of some sort of strange, postmodern hootenanny. She has by turns been considered an essentialist, an exemplar of postmodern hybridity, a victim of patriarchy, a postcolonialist and a pioneer of postminimal art strategies. Still, here we are, and it seems to me arbitrary to accept the challenges of religious pluralism and historical skepticism about Jesus while ignoring postmodern nihilism. We are living through the juncture of eras, modern to postmodern, which unsettles our certainties and at the same time heightens our longing for certainty. The impenetrable jargon of much postmodern writings is an issue as well. Perhaps we have simply transvalued impersonality as elusiveness, irony and parodic cultural quotation, qualities especially attractive in the wake of postmodern theory. They have stumbled through the postmodern junkyard, loaded together all of the synthetic throbs, hums, and moans they could find and patchworked them into one gorgeous mess. The award-winning British play promises a salacious good time with its decidedly postmodern take on gender and sexual power relationships in the middle ages. One way or another, we'll get to the bottom of this postmodern switcheroo. Its billboards typically featured postmodern designs in bright colors that depicted the pieces of a jigsaw, or single images with cryptically clever questions. A postmodern pastiche of popular music styles and hits, the film used songs and music ranging from Madonna and the Beatles to Dolly Parton and Kiss. Its six separate plots spin and swirl for your postmodern attention, and they drift from the 1850s to postapocalyptic times. They went on to become some of the most famous names in postmodern art. The postmodern emphasis on sublimity has tended to stress the sublime as an unreachable beyond, contemplation of which induces a pathos of finitude in any human subject. This is especially important for me as a postmodern writer and researcher, where intertextuality is a major consideration in the production of cultural and creative pieces. While reality is not so subjective as postmodern philosophers and deconstructionist literary critics would have us believe, the words we use can have a powerful effect. Show More Sentences Perhaps this is some postmodern gay subversion, but to me it just seemed like lousy writing and lackluster direction. Brash, crass, and sporting a perpetually raised eyebrow, ash Williams remains the ultimate postmodern superhero. Thomson argues there is now evidence of a departure from and revision of the medicalized ableist legacy to be found in exemplary postmodern black women's writing. In these exciting postmodern times, the old school elemental weapons of wand, pentacle, sword and cup are just no longer relevant to our 21st century lives. No one has charted the territory of postmodern family life with her wit or precision. From this point on, there is a postmodern knowingness to the writing. The so-called postmodern world has reified the worst aspects of capitalism, which no longer faces the restraints of a concerted working-class challenge. Its parade of sententious and yawningly vacuous postmodern artspeak can only serve to perpetuate the perception of the contemporary art world as a self-serving elite. Can I take refuge in the thought that the mash-up of French and American pastry idioms gives this donut some postmodern cred? A postmodern playfulness and irony are employed to challenge a Party icon, by co-opting fragments of an old socialist anthem as the basis of a rock song. Against Sartre's blind consistency, Foucault's postmodern leftism substituted haphazard shifts, though keeping intact destructive political conclusions. And on the simplest level, there was a disconcerting clash between the postmodern textuality dispensed by the singers and the humble captions on the screen. The film deals with a prototypically modern drama at a postmodern moment. The beauty revivalism of the 1990s often expressed dissatisfaction with the priority postmodern discourse placed on the social and symbolic regulation of the subject. A key image for the film because it limns Kane's elusive real self, but also a key moment in film and literature for the transition from the modern to the postmodern. Below ground and inside, in architectural terms, while slickly postmodern in its use of form and materials, the building harmonises perfectly with its surroundings. The postmodern feeling for style harmonises with the pictures, which would be classified as pop-art, and the furniture of the fifties and sixties. They smack of totalitarian despotism, and their quaint claim for absolute certainty seems anachronistic in this postmodern age of relativism and deconstruction. Derrida's theory of supplementarity is useful in understanding the extent to which ethnic art explodes postmodern theory in unexpected and unexplored new directions. We are both modern and postmodern and yet not defined by either. Show More Sentences There was consensus on the roles that social constructionism, narrative, and hermeneutics play in postmodern thought and their application to therapy. Chapters treat such topics as nature, postmodern concepts of God, religious ethics, free will, revivalism and sacramentalism, and the salvation of non-Christians. Yet theories that endorse the implosion and blurring of the traditionally drawn boundaries between conventionally accepted dualisms are not necessarily postmodern. At first glance, Ann Allen Shockley's novel, Loving Her, appears to be a postmodern novel that deconstructs dominant ideologies of race, gender, and sexuality. Stylistically, there are occasional lapses, which are characterised by a postmodern 'fruitiness' or a vatic terseness. Today, the Restoration total theatre experience is again valued, both by postmodern literary critics and on the stage. It includes different variations of modernist, postmodern, neoromantic, and pluralist music. Certain postmodern, minimalist and postminimalist classical composers acknowledge a debt to popular music. Minimalism is variously construed either as a precursor to postmodernism, or as a postmodern movement itself. Another trend in art which has been associated with the term postmodern is the use of a number of different media together. In a narrower sense, what was Modernist was not necessarily also postmodern. More recent artistic production is often called contemporary art or postmodern art. Many other postmodern fiction writers have been directly influenced by Surrealism. Contemporary dance draws on both classical ballet and modern dance, whereas postmodern dance was a direct and opposite response to modern dance. Much of what follows is about changed perspectives, or what my mentor, Sherman Paul, terms perspectivalization, a primary postmodern virtue. The vampire, as postmodern monster, is nothing if he is not hyperconscious of himself in his role. But almost all settle back on familiar assumptions about quotation and the multivalency of postmodern texts. What I am objecting to is that aspect of postmodern thought that rejects the idea of any objective reality. Gandhi today is up for grabs. He has become abstract, ahistorical, postmodern, no longer a man in and of his time but a freeloading concept. A postmodern doctrine of God, rather, must be an apophatic theology, or a via negativa. Show More Sentences This sacrificial service offers the postmodern West a nonhegemonic metanarrative of hope. The postmodern deconstructs the metanarratives of the Western tradition, leaving us with a plurality of narratives and values. One of the seediest styles from the tackiest decade is back, although in some postmodern way we now accept that it is, indeed, tacky. For the postmodern ironist, there is no way out of the cave of appearance, preference, and manipulation. But are we better off now that this postmodern moral relativism has taken hold in society? The polysemous, multivocal messaging made possible via social media demonstrates the fragmented hyperreality of postmodern political culture. The theoretical framework is a blend of neo-Hegelian, Deweyean, and postmodern political thought. Newark has the trickiest, most confounding partnering ever invented in postmodern dance, and her glorious 5 or and Reset appears one night only. Furthermore, life roles are a focus of postmodern approaches to career counseling, such as those of Blustein, Brott, Peavy, and Savickas. The structure of the novel is architectural, and Fleming builds a postmodern sandwich that even Dagwood could admire. Outwardly, these aggressive postmodern women have degendered themselves, and thus escaped from traditional male stereotypes of what is female. We have passed through postmodern ground zero and peregrinated into a global telegeography that has been galvanically commodified. His works embrace every conceivable style from Stravinskyan neo-classicism to contemporary Americana to cerebral serialism and improvisatory chance to postmodern eclectic. The postmodern crisis in paternal authority lies in the ramifications of these Freudian myths trajected across the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. That the viewer remains unsure as to the identity of the works underscores their multivalency and, in that sense, their continuing claim as representative postmodern efforts. The Crime Studio manages to subvert genre fiction without descending into sniggling postmodern ridicule, which may be the last brave thing left in contemporary literature. For liberal political philosophers, postmodern political theory represents a systematically incoherent, irrationalist and ultimately non-serious body of thought. The book contains seven stories centered on women's daily life and experiences, in a creative style sometimes referred to as postmodern intertextuality. As with much of the move towards 'Critical geographies', the arguments have drawn largely from postmodern, post structural and postcolonial theories. The closing years of the 20th century saw controversial postmodern influences entering some parts of Evangelicalism, particularly with the emerging church movement. Show More Sentences In short, Critical Race Theory is an intellectual movement that is both particular to our postmodern times and part of a tradition of human resistance and liberation. For an illustration of the differences between the traditional, positivist curriculum and the more postmodern reconceptualized curriculum, see Hanley and Montgomery. Sociocultural anthropology has been heavily influenced by structuralist and postmodern theories, as well as a shift toward the analysis of modern societies. These selections all work to dispel any easy ideas about Tijuana as the sign of postmodern hybridity, seeing it rather as Janus-faced, prismatic, often fictional. In the latter half of the 1980s, Atlanta became one of the early adopters of postmodern designs that reintroduced classical elements to the cityscape. The postmodern buildings of the Espace Leopold complete the picture. As a result, postmodern Ophelia is placed in a bathtub, so that the claustrophobic space of a bathroom replaces the open space of a streamy landscape. The postmodern structure of this collection creates poetic fragments that are seamlessly interwoven in an effortless stream of consciousness flow. Pop art and minimalism are considered to be art movements that precede postmodern art, or are some of the earliest examples of postmodern art themselves. Examples from Classical Literature However, some critics conflate the three genres as part of a postmodern interrogation of the tenability of narrative genre delineations. But these days, opera houses eagerly hire the likes of postmodern choreographers Mark Dendy, Doug Varone and Scan Curran. Matz mentions contributions on the postmodern time crisis by Jean-Francois Lyotard, Fredric Jameson, David Harvey, Antonio Negri, Richard Sennet, and James Gleick. Find more words! 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