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    “The long of the English alphabet… has for me the tint o weathered wood, but a French a evokes polished ebony” (34). Nabokov’s characters also shared his educated status. Nabokov was a member of the intelligentsia in Russia, a trait that he subsequently gave his fictional narrators. Before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Nabokov’s father was a politician and member of the “Constitutionalist Democratic Party, of which he was one of the founders” (28). The Constitutional Democratic Party was

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    will result in demonstrating how and why postmodern text deconstructs grand narratives. In order to do this, this essay will present two postmodern texts: the film Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino and the novel Sexting The Cherry by Jeanette Winterson. Thus, showing how these two texts use postmodern techniques to deconstruct grand narratives. Particularly, how they deconstruct the perception of time. Before getting into the crux of the chosen postmodern texts, the concept or grand narratives, otherwise

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    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

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    In Thomas Pynchon’s “Entropy” the American society is through two different extremes through the narratives of Meatball Mulligan and Callisto to identify the chaos and heat-death of the American society. Through the chaos it is evident that the breakdown of communication is present and how communication is failing in the American society. The breakdown of communication in this short story is shown through the communication theory, the chaos that emerges from Mulligan’s party, and the heat-death of

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    In The Crying of Lot 49, Oedipa Maas realizes that she is “a captive maiden [in the] tower” of her dull suburban life (Pynchon 11). The confines of her daily existence model the sort of closed system in which the effects of entropy are most visible. We see Oedipa’s isolation increase through the course of the novel, and, in keeping with the theory of entropy, her life takes on an increasingly chaotic quality. “‘Communication is the key,’ crie[s] Nefastis,” the entropy-obsessed scientist, in The

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    The Failure of Technology in White Noise by Don Delillo One particularly unfortunate trait of modern society is our futile attempt to use technology to immunize ourselves against the fear of death. The failure of technology in this regard is the general subject of Don Delillo''s book White Noise. Throughout this novel, technology is depicted as the ominous messenger of our common fate, an increasing sense of dread over loss of control of our lives and the approach of inevitable death in spite

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    Self and other The theme of self versus other evident in the novel is reflective of the postmodern idea that there exist boundaries between the two separate entities, the internal and external, perception and reality. This theme manifests as the idea that the ‘other’ can influence the ‘self’, that society controls the individual. Wallace also explores the theme of self and other in Infinite Jest by contrasting the boundary between what goes on inside the characters’ heads and the outside world

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    Comparison Paper: Bright Lights, Big City and White Noise Bright Lights, Big City Bright Lights, Big City, is an American narrative, by Jay Mclnerney. The narrative is among America’s most notable novels, presented in the second person. In the book, Mclnerney presents the narrator as a worker for highbrow magazine. He depicts the narrator as party maniac, and cocaine user, who intends to literally lose himself in the profligacy (hedonism), of the yuppie party scene (McInerney 213). The narrator

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    left, which tends to believe in postmodernism and Marxist philosophy. This runs counter to free speech and stands as an ideological threat to the freedoms enjoyed by western civilization. While not detailed further here, these threats stand from postmodern denial of the idea of Truth, the rejection of faith in science and reason, and the idea that human nature is only socially determined.* Freedom of speech is necessary for freedom to think, criticize, debate, listen, and understand one another. It

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    Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, psychoanalyst and feminist writer. Her work on abjection gives an engaging insight into human culture in terms of it’s relationship to larger overarching power structures. In Powers of Horror, Kristeva argues that the oppression of woman in patriarchal societies is constructed through fear of the abject. “The tremendous forcing that consists in subordinating maternal power (whether historical of phantasmic, natural or reproductive.)” (Kristeva, 1982

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