This thesis aims to provide a case study for a critical theory of mythopoetics, via analysis of four ‘Brexit narratives’: The Bad Boys of Brexit by Arron Banks, Unleashing Demons by Craig Oliver, All Out War by Tim Shipman and The Brexit Club by Owen Bennett. My objective is to demonstrate the prevalence of mythopoetics in political and historical discourse, via analysis of four competing polit...

Le centre universitaire expérimental de Vincennes, situé au cœur du bois a rayonné 1969 à 1980, en proposant des techniques pédagogiques innovantes, ouvrant ses portes aux non-bacheliers, et accueillant enseignants reconnus internationalement (Jean-François Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze, etc.). L’ensemble bâtiments été rasé 1980 recouvert plusieurs dizaines centimètres remblais. Ce passé est aujourd’...

By examining the subversive discourse of both children, Charles and Smudge, this paper will focus on child’s identity in Anthony Browne’s postmodern picture book Voices Park. Drawing theory mainly Lyotard’s perception childhood as a time intense creativity imagination, where child is free to explore world way that not bound by adult’s rationality logic, analyse how Charles’s Smudge’s discourses...

The past decade has seen the gradual emergence of what might be called a postmodern perspective on nursing research. However, the development of a coherent postmodern critique of the modernist position has been hampered by some misunderstandings and misrepresentations of postmodern epistemology by a number of writers, leading to a fractured and distorted view of postmodern nursing research. Thi...

While nursing practice embodies certain observable and sometimes habitual actions, much inheres in these actions that is not immediately discernible. Taking on Lyotard's exegesis of the unpresentable, I undertake an analysis of the unpresentable as it occurs in nursing practices. The unpresentable is a place of alterity often excluded from dominant discourses. Yet this very alterity is what pra...