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Yancey. A Primer On Postmodernism. “Postmodernism represents a rejection of the Enlightenment project and the foundational assumptions upon which it was built.”. A Primer On Postmodernism. “In some sense evangelicalism – with its focus on scientific thinking, the empirical approach, and common sense – is a child of early modernity.”. Against Modernism . “Postmodernism” in the 1950’s and 1960’s began as a revolt against “Modernism” . “Modernism” was characterised by a deep suspicion of the popular which it considered “conventional” and “bourgeois”. Structural Geology. R. C. Fletcher. PGP, University of Oslo. GEOMOD2010, Lisbon, Portugal 9/27/2010. with acknowledgements to:. Ezra Pound, poet. George . Polya. , mathematician. Bill Chapple, structural geologist. Keywords: Postmodernism, Consumer culture, Modernity, Consumer identity, Ethnicity Prasidh Raj SINGH A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature. I. Defining Cultural Studies. “Culture” is hard to define and so is “cultural studies”. It is not so much a discrete approach as a set of practices influenced by many fields. Hunting Snipes and attempting to find a definition for postmodernity. “Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.”. -Terry Eagleton. Postmodern literature is intrinsically difficult to define. It is a combination of many movements starting around the end of WWII and extending up to the present, but a timeline is little help, due to the fragmented and disjointed nature of postmodernism.. Postmodernism & Truth. Where Did It Come From?. Modernism – . The Enlightenment of Man. Approx. 1700s to early 1900s. Rise of the Humanistic Standard. Humanity is the basis of existence (. Kant. what can we do?;. where do we go from here?. Reflections on public rhetoric. Warning! This Presentation Contains:. Postmodernism. Unsupported Claims. My Opinion. Balanced Critique. Calls for Sensitivity. Against Modernism . “Postmodernism” in the 1950’s and 1960’s began as a revolt against “Modernism” . “Modernism” was characterised by a deep suspicion of the popular which it considered “conventional” and “bourgeois”. Introduction . - The 21. st. Century, especially the . _______, . is influenced by Postmodernism. . - Postmodernism influences much of what we see in . ________, ___________, . and . ___________. . - Postmodernism is undergirded by . . Postmodernism is normally applied to the dramatic arts, however has been known to appear in poetry.. ORIGIN. First debuted after World War II, Postmodernism became the new black. This era of writing was highly influenced by current events at the time such as, Genocides of WWII, The Chinese Cultural Revolution, and the mass destruction of cities due to atomic bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. . Ethical Theism. Absolute truth / good. Absolute God. History of Thought. Modernism. Renaissance. Enlightenment. Industrial Revolution. Theory of Evolution. History of Thought. Man arbitrates truth. Empirical science solves problems. The 1980s and Beyond. John Keenan john.keenan@coventry.ac.uk. Theory check-up. Read. Understains. . Words in Ads . Freedom . Captains of Consciousness. Decoding Advertisements. Watch. Century of the Self and Ways of Seeing . Introduction to Communication Theory. Comm. 1510-01. M R 4-7:50 PM. Prof. . Matt Rolph. A buzzword … but what does it mean?. Post-atomic uncertainty. One conventional explanation of postmodernism suggests that it arose in response to the discovery of the devastating power of the atomic bomb, and the uncertainty about authority thereby created..