Search results for "Postmodernism"

Metanarrative of the "New Father" and Narratives of Young Finnish First-Time Fathers

2011

The metanarrative of the “new father” has become well-established in both the public and academic discourses on families. This study analyzes the narratives and storylines about fatherhood told by young Finnish first-time fathers, and examines the interrelationship between these narratives and the metanarrative of the “new father.” Three different narratives were identified—the modern, the transition and the postmodern narratives of fathering. Although constructed differently, all three narratives engaged with the metanarrative of the new father by reflecting on it and by drawing a distinction between their perceptions of fatherhood and the narratives of the past. In conclusion, the idea of…

Savant et populaire. Le post-modernisme (1977-2011) selon Charles Jencks

2015

International audience

COVID-19, Terrorism, and Conspiracy Plot: Everyone Is Guilty Until Proven Innocent

2021

COVID-19 is reaffirming the tendency of nation-states to find imaginary enemies when hit with a crisis—enemies to whom its origins and perpetuation could be attributed. This is needed for their unity and survival. However, a strong and serious global pandemic like COVID-19 would need the identification of strong and serious enemies. This is a dangerous proposition if taken to anywhere beyond rhetoric. China is identified as the antagonist; yet, a real confrontation with China would cause more harm than what COVID-19 might cause. It is essential that we lead the world toward a new war, “against a virus”. This chapter reflects the problem of hospitality, as strongly associated with conspiracy…

Historia y lenguaje: la vuelta al relato dos décadas después

2019

This essay aims to give a critical account of the main arguments involved in the debate about the so called «linguistic turn» in History. Bringing into discussion the most recent historiographical production, we argue that there is space for, and an unrgent need of, thinking seriously about the relationship between 'language' an 'history' without, necessarily, collapsing our discipline into a mere narrative or a postmodern technique of «reading the signs». We want to challenge, therefore, rhe rigid dichotomy between a perception of language as a reflection of social reality and a perception of language as the ultimate creator of it.

Decoding the XXI Century’s Marketing Shift: An Agency Theory Framework

2016

Since the beginning of the XXI century, marketing theory has moved through a series of epistemological shifts from modern positivism to postmodern constructivism. This has resulted in a series of changes to the main concepts of “traditional” marketing such as: market, product, customer, and value. These shifts can be better viewed under a social cybernetics approach such as agency theory. This is because there is now a view that the linear concept of value creation needs to give way to the more complex process of value cocreation, where value is created collectively. Agency theory is one approach that is able to shed light on how customers and providers are able to recursively create collec…

Electronic poetry : understanding poetry in the digital environment

2011

Entering post-otaku : approaching the Internet era in the light of otaku

2014

This thesis raises a hypothesis that we have entered the Post- Otaku era. In order to prove this hypothesis, a survey has been conducted in which 30 participants gave answers regarding their Internet habits. It is said that each time when science and technology make one step forward, it increases the capacity of our organs. Compared with the impact of the industrial revolution on human beings, the influence of Internet technology seems far more tremendous as the former extends the power of our limbs while the latter enhances the competence of our brain. The significance of the present study is trying to explore the unknown future in the light of the Otaku phenomenon which is something havin…

Problems of Interpreting Literary Work at School

2015

Integration in the global world that has rapidly been happening during the independence years in Latvia has brought about many benefits in the field of education but has also created numerous problems. It has aggravated the postmodern situation which in the context of literature teaching/learning has manifested itself as decrease of learners’ reading interests and skills. In didactics of the Latvian literature, the approach to interpretation of a literary work designed in the 19th and 20th has enriched with various theoretical and methodological sources from the West. It raised the necessity to develop awareness of these theories in the cultural and historical context and draw the conclusio…

Somu komiksu mākslinieces: naratīva vizualizācija un tematiskās tendences

2016

Bakalaura darbs “Somu komiksu mākslinieces: naratīva vizualizācija un tematiskās tendences” ir veltīts trīs somu komiksu mākslinieču - Teas Tauriainenas, Hanneles Ričertes un Hannas-Piritas Lehkonenas - daiļrades analīzei, kā arī komiksu naratīvu vizualizācijas un tematu izklāsta paņēmienu aprakstam. Darba mērķis ir trīs Somijas mākslinieču komiksu tematikas un vizuālo naratīvu tendenču analīze un salīdzinājums. Mērķa sasniegšanai tika atlasīts teorētiskais materiāls par komiksu uzbūvi un to vēsturi, komiksu humora izpausmēm, naratīva jēdzienu un tā vizualizācijas aspektiem. Balstoties uz iegūto informāciju, tika apskatīti mākslinieču tīmekļa dienasgrāmatās publicētie komiksi, veikta naratī…

Fragmentation(s) and Realism(s): Has the Fragment Gone Mainstream?

2019

This article tackles what seems to be a revival of fragmentary fiction in English in the 21st century. It briefly traces the lineage of critical interest in the fragment from German Romanticism through Bertolt Brecht and Modernism to postmodern film studies, in an attempt to highlight not only the temporal, but also the spatial and visual dimension of discontinuity evinced by recent fragmentary fiction. Six novels published between 2005 and 2017 are discussed sequentially, in a manner redolent of cinematic movement: Tom McCarthy’s Remainder 2005, Anne Enright’s The Gathering 2007, Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing 2016, Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West 2017, Ali Smith’s Autumn 2016, and George Saunders’s Linco…