Postmodern philosophy

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

I learnt of the changes as I shared a meal with my friends after they voted. The terror and despair we each felt reminded me of the hyper reality Baudrillard foretold in his works about the postmodern society. In Simulation and Simularca, Baudrillard cites the evidentiary changes observable in the postmodern era, marked mainly by the emergence of the simulation society (McQueen, 2014, p.8). The defining aspect Baudrillard notes of this period is the subjection, acceptance and adaptation of the hyper

very unique era within American literature. In previous time periods authors wrote very structured eventful stories that would often relate to the most common themes of the time, however Postmodernism completely defied this formula. In most cases Postmodern stories do not have story arcs nor do they have common themes. At most, the Post era can be bound by very vague similarities. Most of the stories are conveyed through streams of conscious, which is essentially using an unedited snippet of someone's

The postmodernist period was a period in literary period where writers used their voices to express how they felt about what was going on in the world around them. During the postmodern period there was many events going on that would cause an author to feel a certain way and feel the need to express themselves. An event that could make an author feel the need to express themselves during this period is the Civil Rights Movement. As a result of the Civil Rights Movement, a color fence, or barrier

The use of irony in the novel also contributes to its postmodernism. Many postmodernists treat serious subjects jovially to distance themselves from the difficult subject. They evoke black humor and different types of irony to offer critics of society and to display how society should not fear dark and somber things. DeLillo sprinkles irony all throughout his story using it even at the most serious of times. He uses it to show how the characters should not fear death and how the characters ignore

In his seminal study Gothic, Botting compares Gothic literature in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries with respect to their different ways of addressing terror and horror. He notes that the novel of terror dominated the eighteenth-century gothic writings for its transgressive efficacies. Female Gothic writers examine the terrors of patriarchal oppression while verbalizing the heroine’s anxiety about her entrapment into the confines of domesticity. In other words, the gothic heroine

universities across America and the globe. Most of these codes are propagated from the academic 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

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 to postpositivism and

Postmodernism is a movement in the field of art, architecture and criticism. It includes a way of interpreting culture, literature, art, philosophy, history, economics, architecture and fiction in a way which is not easily convincible. Pulp Fiction is an American comedy crime movie directed by Quentin Taratino which was released in 1994. Pulp Fiction is a term used to describe a huge amount of creative writing available to the American public in the early nineteen-hundreds. In this paper we discuss

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 the Swinging Sixties because the relaxation of social taboos relating to sexism. Challenging the idea that a good citizen conforms to gender norms and heterosexuality. b. One can blatantly observe this in the art of the