The Cold War And Postmodern Eras

political debris left over from the World War II, the Cold War and the revitalizing economic policies of the Reagan Era, Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry was able to shatter the established architectural norm of the modern era and pen an iconoclastic style called deconstructivism in the postmodern 1980s, leaving a resounding legacy in the architecture industry. The social and political debris remaining by the end of World War II and the Cold War stifled the possibility of a new architectural

the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.” Through his statement, he endeavored to associate a theory to the shifting concept of postmodernism; to synopsize different events, experiences, and phenomena in history through a universal appeal to truth. While his supposition, through equation with the poems of Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Olsen, or John Cage - does indeed seem to hold validity; to define postmodernism remains difficult. To define this era would be to violate the

American-European affairs. Consequently, the article I chose pertains to one of the biggest Eastern vs. Western disputes of the postmodern age; the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall. The author of this scholarly article is a professor of communications and therefore focuses mainly on the public’s take on the Wall, mostly the symbolism applied to it. Starting with its rise during the Kennedy Era, the author explains how President Kennedy was able to convince the World’s public that the Wall was a result of the

After the events of WWII, to say that America had changed drastically was an understatement; with the entirety of the Cold War, the Korean and Vietnam wars, and all the other political strife at home and abroad, America during this time could be considered an era of conflicting ideals. As a result of this change of times, literature changed it’s perspective; effectively, the transition from modernist ideals to postmodernist ideals. Much like modernism, however, post-modernism offered to reject ideals

and after World War I the world changed. As a reflection of that change writers began experimenting with perspective, time and order, form, etc. Literature wasn’t as straightforward; there were metaphors within metaphors, stories without clear beginnings middles and ends, poets used mixed meters and free verse became common becoming what is known as the modernist era. Around World War II the same thing happened again, but taken to the extreme. This was known as the postmodern era and writers began

to show system from broader perception. Marcus explains this in his book as a critical method in field of conspiracy theory. Melly sweeps through Cold-War era up to War on Terror post 9/11 in order to reinterpret it in relation to the “paradoxical epistemology.” Melly asserts that the rise of National intelligence caused “major stimulus of postmodern epistemological skepticism.” Melly demonstrates this point by continuing on historians’ investigation and discussion of specific events and presidential

Literary Analysis: Watchmen The term postmodernism has been defined in different ways over the past years but it still hasn’t had its official definition. Postmodernism is a daunting subject because of the disagreements between people of how they interrupt texts and art. Postmodernism is a critic of what we assume to be real or a fantasy of what we want to be real. Postmodernism raises an importance of identity. Postmodernism is a style and concept of the arts, architecture and the criticism that

Twentieth century is marked with two epochs, first half is known as modernism and second half is named as postmodernism. In the latter half of twentieth century there was an overall transferal in terms of culture, economics, religion, history, linguistics, social behavior, philosophy, arts, architecture, and literature. The world has entered into a new phenomenon that is being defined with the prefix of ‘post’. For istance from structuralism to poststructuralism, colonialism to postcolonialism, positivism

Study of the essay "Power and Weakness" by Robert Kagan Robert Kagan, American neoconservative scholar and political commentator created an international sensation in 2002 with his essay "Power and Weakness," that he later expanded into a bestselling book entitled Of Paradise and Power. His essay announced that "Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus." Here is a summary of his essay and the different steps of his analysis of the deteriorating US-Europe relationship. According

The Movement of Protest 1) “It was a decade of extremes, of transformational change and bizarre contrasts: flower children and assassins, idealism and alienation, rebellion and backlash. For many in the massive post-World War II baby boom generation, it was both the best of times and the worst of times.” (K. Walsh) a. Historians nostalgically described the sixties as a counterculture and revolution in social norms, such as: art, sexuality, formalities, and philosophy. The decade was also called