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Postmodernism Postmodernism - correct answer aesthetic, cultural *metafiction* (narrative within narrative) *self-reflexivity* *blurring of boundaries* (no high & low culture) *sheer play and existential commitment* *pastiche* (Comic Mona Lisa) (pieces of art alluding to what came before, revisit old style vs. Modernism, reinvent everything) *linguistic scepticism/deconstruction* (poststructuralism: meaning collapsed, my pen is not your pen) Meaning = unstable Not just literature, als...

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Postmodernism Features of modern society? - correct answer 1) The Nation State 2) Capitalism 3) Rationality, science and technology 4) Tradition, custom and ascribed status become less important as the basis for our actions. What are modernist theories a part of? - correct answer Modernist theories are part of the enlightenment project - the idea that society can progress through the use of human reason. When did modern society first emerge? - correct answer Late 18th century. Capit...

POSTMODERNISM, definition, general featuresPostmodernism: the term - correct answer - like 'modernism' or 'realism', 'postmodernism' can be used a) as a period term, and b) as a term designating a certain trend in literature and other media a) period from the 1960s to around 2000, or, as some say, to the present (i.e. not quite immediately following modernism, since the 1940s and l 950s showed a 'reaction against modernist experimentation' in poetry and fiction; cf. Rabinovitz 1967); th...

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Bible - PostmodernismCan you summarize the postmodern worldview in a few words (5) - correct answer -a reaction to the evils of modernism -views truth claims as political power plays -views truth is a social construct -ultimate knowledge is inaccessible -suspicious of metanarratives If "Postmodernism" means "after modernism" what is modernism - correct answer modernism is characterized by a strong belief in human reason, empiricism, science, and technological progress, as well as ske...

Complete Test Bank for Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory, 4th Edition by Scott Appelrouth, Laura Desfor Edles ; ISBN13: 9781506387994. (Full Chapters included Chapter 1 to 16).....Chapter 1. Introduction. Chapter 2. Karl Marx (1818–1883). Chapter 3. Émile Durkheim (1858–1917). Chapter 4. Max Weber (1864–1920). Chapter 5. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935). Chapter 6. Georg Simmel (1858–1918). Chapter 7. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963). Chapter 8. George Herbert Me...

Chapter 7 World Views PostmodernismPostmodernism? - correct answer Skeptical worldview founded as a reaction to modernism Postmodernism is a reaction to what? - correct answer Evils of modernism Postmodernism believes that truth claims are what? - correct answer Power claims What is social construct? - correct answer Truth is a collection of artifacts Postmodernism means what? - correct answer After modernism Time period of modernism? - correct answer What 4 key things does mo...

PostmodernismModernism - correct answer A movement post WWI-WWII that sought to fill the void that the lost generation and the shattering of Enlightenment ideals created. Modernists were earnest as they tried to both create a new way of interpreting the world around them, make people feel better (not Neitzsche obviously), and create CHANGE. Postmodernism - correct answer ... Neitzsche's Superman - correct answer He argued that life is a meaningless, chaotic storm in which Enlightenment id...

Postmodernism1. According to Postmodernism, the following affect how we see the world? - correct answer a. Culture b. Language c. Gender According to Postmodernism, truth is what? - correct answer Socially constructed 1. Which Postmodernist philosopher famously pronounced, "God is dead"? - correct answer . Friedrich Nietzsche 1. According to Postmodernism, language functions as what? - correct answer A tool of power and manipulation Postmodernists doubt the objectivity of which o...