Essays on Postmodernism

In Jean Francois Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition, he discusses how the status of knowledge has changed in more advanced economies. Applying his insight to the world we live in today, the focus is on the information overload emerging from web-based sources and multimedia platforms. This...

In this essay I will be giving an insight on postmodernism in film and touch on how complex narrative play a role in these types of films. I will be giving illustrated examples, evidence and theoretical approach on narrative elements in storytelling. My main task...

Arundhati Roy’s criticism of traditional literary form through her fragmented narrative in The God of Small Things allows her to respond to the moral decay of the traumatized colonial body in India. This essay sets out to examine the undoing of the Ipe family and...

“The Things They Carried” is a book comprised of a collection of linked short stories about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War written by author Tim O’Brien. The book describes in detail what life is like in war...

In the novel ​The Things they Carried​ by Tim O’Brien he uses Postmodernization and metafiction techniques to take the reader deeper into the novel. Tim O’Brien tells these stories through multiple different characters perspective and many different trains of thoughts by O’Brien. This novel is...

Art movements and architecture have throughout history always been ingrained with the time in which they existed, influenced by it and/or challenging the norms of their society. They affect the world around them as much as they are a mirror of it. Perhaps no art...

It is no doubt that all discussions of postmodernism begin with definitions of modernism, the period and cultural phase which relied on a notion of human perfectibility and progress that were formed due to the applications of technological advances in World War II. Modernists rejected...