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Postmodern Comparison/3 works
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A 6 page research paper that examines three disparate works that are, nevertheless, connected by their shared postmodernist perspective. These works are Thomas Pynchon's novel The Crying of Lot 49, Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash, and Peter Greenaway's film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. While these works are vastly different in form and content, they can all be viewed as postmodernist fables that offer a plethora of meanings concerning the nature of modern life and the possibilities for the future. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Postmodern Fiction and How it is Represented in Julian Barnes' Short Story, "Experiment"
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A 3 page paper which defines postmodern fiction and how it is represented in Julian Barnes' short story, "Experiment." Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Postmodern Sci-Fi Stories
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A 4 page essay that contrasts and compares 2 sci-fi short stories. Bruce Sterling in his short story "Flowers of Edo" and Pat Cadigan in "Pretty Boy Crossover" picture characters trying to adjust to change in a postmodern world. While these stories are very different in style and content, they both picture characters having to adjust their conceptualization of reality to new technology and to paradigm shifts that "change everything." In "Flowers of Edo," the artist Yoshitoshi adjusts to the coming of the Westerners and their technology by adopting the new paradigm and making friends with the demon that lives in the telegraph wires. Pretty Boy in Cadigan's story keeps his individuality by choosing to resist the technological enslavement inherent in "crossing over." In both stories, the postmodern approach to these narratives causes the reader to consider and question the nature of reality, as experienced by the characters. No additional sources cited.
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Postmodernism: Definitions
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A 4 page overview of the era we know as postmodern. While the exact point in time that postmodernism is said to have began is difficult to pin down with any accuracy, many suggest that it began with the 1960s. The author of this paper notes the numerous meanings associated with the term postmodern as well as the many societal implications to this concept. Perhaps one of the most interesting and potentially devastating implications which has resulted in response to postmodernity is that of globalization and its consequent contributions to civil disobedience. Bibliographer lists 5 sources.
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Postrel & O’Brien/Aesthetics & The True War Story
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An 8 page research paper/essay that discusses Virginia Postrel’s writing on style, design and aesthetics and than applies her ideas to the writing of Tim O’Brien in “How to Tell a True War Story.” The writer argues that O’Brien uses aesthetics to convey meaning about the nature of war experience. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Power & Female Relationships/2 Novels
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A 5 page essay that contrasts and compares the structure and themes of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club (1989) and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine (1984), which have very similar structures as a novels. Each text offers a series of short stories that collectively relate a coherent saga of generations and relationships. Tan relates the stories of four families and Erdrich focuses on three interconnected families. In both works, the authors portray the tension that arises from conflicting cultural expectations, that is, from being "other" within the context of mainstream culture in terms that primarily dramatizes this as tension between two generations of women. Primarily the writer talks about Tan's short story "Two Kinds" and Erdrich's "Saint Marie." Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Power and Exploitation in Four Literary Works:
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An 8 page comparison of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Alan Duff's Once Were Warriors, Russell Banks' Continental Drift, and Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal in terms of their treatment of the themes of exploitation and power. The paper asserts that it is not only those who are suffering the exploitation who suffer; the exploiters suffer morally as their actions diminish them. Similarly, the exploited morally triumph as they learn to deal with adversity and forge a renewed sense of power out of the shambles of their lives. Bibliography lists five sources.
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Power and Fear in "Medea" and "Lysistrata"
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An eight page comparison of these two Greek plays from the fifth century BC, by Euripedes and Aristophanes respectively. The paper maintains that although Aristophanes' play takes the form of a bawdy comedy and Euripedes is a melodramatic tragedy, both playwrights clearly fear the potential power of women. Bibliography lists five sources.
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Power of Language in Langston Hughes’ Poems ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’ and ‘Mother to Son’
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In five pages this paper explores how the poet employs such literary devices as metaphors in these poems to illustrate the power of language to readers. Two sources are cited in the bibliography.
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Power of Unwritten Law: Oedipus Rex
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A 5 page paper which examines the theme of the power of unwritten law in Sophocles' play "Oedipus Rex." No additional sources cited.
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