Essays about: "Lyotard"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the word Lyotard.

1. 1. "We're here, and we don't know why" : An analysis of the postmodernist rejection of a universal meaning to life in Ken Grimwood’s novel Replay

   University essay from Jönköping University/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

   Author : Samuel Berglund; [2023]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : The question of the meaning of life is at the centre of this study without being directly addressed. The study does not analyse the meaning of life but rather how the main characters of the novel Replay (Jeff and Pamela) approach the question. READ MORE

3. 2. Reality and Subjectivity in Philip K. Dick’s Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Filip Rossenov Zahariev; [2021]
   Keywords : subjectivity; drugs; Philip K. Dick; The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch; postmodernism; Flow My Tears; The Policeman Said; Chew-Z; Can-D; KR-3; Baudrillard; Hutcheon; Lyotard;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the forces that affect subjectivity in two novels by the author Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. The close reading of these two novels makes use of postmodernist theory as its theoretical foundation. READ MORE

4. 3. Hang on to the Words : Knowledge Tokens, Hierarchies, and Concurrent Narratives in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Jack Appleton; [2020]
   Keywords : MaddAddam Trilogy; Atwood; Margaret; homosocial triangles; selfconstitution; fables; metanarratives; micronarratives;

   Abstract : Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy has received substantial critical attention inthe fields of ecocriticism, the ethics of bioengineering, and feminist theory. However, the vast majority of this criticism has focussed on Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, the first two books in the trilogy. READ MORE

5. 4. Branching Histories: Political Mythopoetics in Four Brexit Narratives

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

   Author : George Magner; [2017]
   Keywords : Politics; Mythopoetics; Myth Studies; Brexit; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : 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 political histories. READ MORE

6. 5. Glitch Art Narratives: An investigation of the relation between noise and meaning

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

   Author : Virginia Sotiraki; [2014]
   Keywords : Semiotics; Paul Virilio; Noise; Glitch Art; Arts and Architecture;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the ontological meta-narratives of glitch art and focuses on it as the transition from images with noise, into a site of meaning. In the first chapter I will discuss glitch art as a failure in communication that stimulates our perception. READ MORE