Patricia D. Fox discusses in her article, "Fiction, Biography, Autobiography, and Postmodern Nostalgia in (Con)Texts of Return," the meditations, in novel and essay, of variously positioned writers and protagonists as each contemplates return to a never glimpsed or long-lost geographical and cultural center. Attempting to decipher the grounding in place and time, by heritage or tradition, Fox's...

CHUM214 The Modern and the Postmodern In this course we will examine how the idea of "the modern" develops at the end of the 18th century and how being modern (or progressive, or hip) became one of the crucial criteria for understanding and evaluating cultural change during the last 200 years. Our readings will be drawn from a variety of areas-philosophy, novels, music, painting, and photograph...

The postmodern take on action research has increased the range of critique and reflection. The addition of complexity theory/cybernetics has developed a fertile ground for new developments in action research by redefining the role of theory in interaction to practice. Theory no longer represents, is no longer the result of mere analysis. They are communications that help to compare events and p...

Notions of the 'postmodern' pervade various fields of study, but have rarely been applied to the practice and theory of nursing. This paper uses some conceptions of the 'postmodern' to remedy this. Though there are many contested usages of the term, here 'postmodern' will be used broadly in a periodical sense to trace changes in society and culture from the 'modernism' of the 18th and 19th cent...

In this article the author explains the social role of Muslim woman in a postmodern society through a public symbol of her identity--the veil. The article's thesis is that the Muslim women's manifestation of their Islamic denomination through veiling and wearing appropriate clothes (in the case of men through growing beards and wearing clothes considered appropriate for them) signifies an expre...

CHUM214 The Modern and the Postmodern In this course we will examine how the idea of "the modern" develops at the end of the 18th century and how being modern (or progressive, or hip) became one of the crucial criteria for understanding and evaluating cultural change during the last 200 years. Our readings will be drawn from a variety of areas-philosophy, novels, music, painting, and photograph...

This paper examines the element central to the notion of the cyborg as a figure of postmodern resistance – the cyborg's celebrated politics of irony, ambiguity, hybridity and effacement. The paper contends that actual constructions of cyborgism in social practice today are emerging in forms which offer far less empowerment than postmodern narratives might hope for. In the examples looked at, th...

Postmodernism is a very ambiguous term. It attracted many researchers from different fields of knowledge in the late 1960s. This article explains intertextuality as a critical means to derive its concepts and components in order to understand the hidden layers of meaning in postmodern pluralist ideology. Variable thoughts of postmodern architecture have been divided into two categories—Hi...

the main goals of current essay are explanation and analysis of modern-postmodern contentions to do determining the role of philosopher of education for the purpose of evolution in education. the method is critical philosophical discovery with two main lines of rational and emancipatory approaches. although there are important contentions between modern and postmodern thoughts the inquiry indic...