En 1981, le sort de la peinture fait l'objet d'annonces les plus contradictoires de part et d'autre de l'Atlantique : un « nouvel esprit en peinture » est célébré au moment même où est promulgué l'acte de décès du medium. Emblème du modernisme greenbergien et repoussoir bourgeois mis à mal par les avant-gardes des années 1960 el 1970, la peinture est prise pour cible privilégiée des théoriciens du postmodernisme, qui réaniment le poncif de la rivalité avec la photographie. Une fois élucidés les enjeux marchands ou idéologiques associés à ces stratégies institutionnelles et théoriques. il s'agira de confronter le discours critique à l'analyse des procédures artistiques élaborées entre le début des années 1960 et la fin des années 1980. Loin d'exclure l'un ou l'autre medium, ces procédures travaillent à de continuelles reconfigurations de combinaisons entre la peinture et la photographie. / In 1981, the fate of painting subject to the most contradictory declarations on both sides of the Atlantic : “A New Spirit in Painting” is celebrated as the medium 's death certificate is being promulgated Symbol of the greenbergian 's modernism and repoussoir bourgeois, damaged by the avant-garde from the Sixties and Seventies, painting is the target of choice for post-modernism theoreticians, who revive the cliché of rivalry with photography. Once clarified the economic or ideological stokes associated with institutional and theoretical strategies, it will be necessary to confront the critical discourse to the analysis of artistic procedures elaborated between the early Sixties and late Eighties. Far from excluding either of these two mediums, these procedures act towards continuous reconfigurations of combinations between painting and photography

My dissertation examines critical engagements with the "new urbanist" movement in late 20th and early 21st century U.S. novels, including Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange, Helena María Viramontes's Their Dogs Came with Them, and Colson Whitehead's Zone One. I argue that these novels reflect new urbanism's valorization of neighborhoods that are walkable, green, and diverse, even as they critique the movement's inattention to environmental injustice and the long history of urban rights movements. Moreover, I argue that contemporary fiction's engagement with new urbanism has driven formal and stylistic innovation in the novel. The "new urbanist novel," I argue, blends elements of the postmodern literary mode, such as metafiction and narrative fragmentation, with elements that are arguably anti-postmodern, such as representations of stable collective identity and utopian visions of organic urban community.

Submitted by RODRIGO BISCHOFF BELLI null (digaobelli@bol.com.br) on 2017-09-27T10:08:20Z No. of bitstreams: 1 BELLI, Rodrigo Bischoff. O irracionalismo como ideologia do capital (versão definitiva).pdf: 1020227 bytes, checksum: e3f0b6b261b187a2a1c99da7a503f73f (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Monique Sasaki (sayumi_sasaki@hotmail.com) on 2017-09-28T13:55:59Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 belli_rb_dr_mar.pdf: 1020227 bytes, checksum: e3f0b6b261b187a2a1c99da7a503f73f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-28T13:55:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 belli_rb_dr_mar.pdf: 1020227 bytes, checksum: e3f0b6b261b187a2a1c99da7a503f73f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-31 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Nas discussões sobre as diversas manifestações do pós-modernismo, existe uma formulação crítica que merece atenção: a de que existiria a aproximação entre o pensamento pós-modernista e o fascista. Esta pesquisa pretende, então, avaliar o alcance dessa crítica, apresentando a tese de que realmente existe uma conexão entre fascismo e pós-modernismo, se consideradas enquanto expressões ideológicas. O objetivo implicado é o de traçar o processo de constituição e permanência do irracionalismo, algo promovido pela predominância das formas de sociabilidade norteadas pela reprodução do capital. Estas forjam um padrão ideológico de viés irracionalista, que recusa a avaliação crítica das experiências anteriores ao favorecerem uma conduta apologética sobre si. / In the discussions about various manifestations of postmodernism, there is a critical formulation that deserves attention: there would be a rapprochement between postmodernist and fascist thinkings. This research intends to evaluate the scope of this criticism, suggesting the hypothesis that really there is a connection between fascism and postmodernism, if considered as ideological expressions. This connection would be due to the transformation of the cultural broth promoted by the form of sociability guided by the reproduction of capital, forging an ideological pattern of irrationalist bias. Given the hypothesis presented, the main objective of the research is to trace the process of constitution and permanence of irrationalism. / Nelle discussioni sulle varie manifestazioni del postmodernismo, esiste una formulazione critica che merita attenzione: che ci sarebbe un ravvicinamento tra il pensiero postmoderno e il fascista. Questa ricerca intende, quindi, valutare l'ambito di questa critica, presentando la tesi secondo cui esiste veramente una connessione tra il fascismo e il postmodernismo, considerata come espressioni ideologiche. L'obiettivo implicito è quello di tracciare il processo di costituzione e di permanenza dell'irrazionalismo, qualcosa promosso dalla predominanza delle forme di socialità guidate dalla riproduzione del capitale. Questi formano un modello ideologico irrazionalista che rifiuta di valutare criticamente le esperienze precedenti, favorendo il comportamento apologetico su se stessi.

This study is enganged generally in postmodernism of philosophy in the introduction. The time and mind definition of period of philosophy will be limited at this study first. Study informs about detailed problems of philosophy at the age of postmodernism. There is also a closer elaboration of selected philosophy writers and after that the study will be specialized in the language area. The objective of this study is making of sectorial analysis of problem during the postmodernism in the society. This work will be fragmented into two parts. The first part of thesis will be aimed at the philosophic aspects of postmodernism and its interpretation. The second part is aimed at the language aspects of postmodernism and the feeling of reality. The both parts are made by analytic method. The analytic method as an analysis of reading of authentic texts. Text work is represented by systematic elaboration of each writer and the final comparation of all writers. The study is represented by the long-time interest of the author about the postmodern dilema. Many of czech letters relating to postmodernism are rather available. There are also some exceptions meaning the conversion of letters of G. Vattima into czech language e.g.

This project reflects how the Seventh-Day Adventist Church is up to with challenges of postmodernism. The first part is about founding the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in context of paradigm of modernism. The second part talks about the church versus themes of postmodernism and the third part is about real steps that the church makes in order to stay in contact with this postmodern society. The goal of this project is to describe the current situation in the most objective way and also to show the possible risks and solutions that members of this church are facing.

Les dernières décennies du XXe siècle et la première du XXIe sont capitales dans la redéfinition culturelle de l’identité frontalière mexicaine. De fait, elles cristallisent la plupart des grands symboles postmodernes : la fin des idéologies nationalistes, l’essor d’une culture industrielle de masse, la déconstruction de la relation antérieure entre le Mexique et les Etats-Unis. La littérature semble y atteindre une nouvelle définition de l’identité, de l’espace, de l’Histoire et de la construction narrative. Dans cette perspective, la production littéraire de Basse-Californie est un bon exemple : bien séparée du monde culturel de Mexico, elle a construit un système de valeurs et un réseau éditorial dédiés à la frontière et à son univers. Ce travail vise avant tout à cartographier et définir les grands aspects de la création littéraire de ces quarante dernières années en Basse-Californie. / The last decades of the XXth century and the first of the XXIth are of paramount importance in the cultural definition of the Mexican borderland identity. Actually, they epitomize most of the central postmodern symbols: the end of the nationalist ideologies, the rise of a massive industrial culture, the deconstruction of the former relationship between Mexico and the USA. The literature seems to reach a new definition of identity, space, History and storytelling. In this perspective, Baja California’s writing production is quite a good sample: well-separated from Mexico City’s cultural world, it has built an internal system of values and a publishing network of its own, dedicated to the border and its universe. This work intends to map out and define the main aspects of Baja California’s last forty years of literary creation.

My dissertation is motivated by two general problems within contemporary North American racial politics. First, the increasing ideological impetus of a “post-racist” society contradicts a spate of events that are symptomatic and constitutive of racial and ethnic essentialisms. Second, the logic of multiculturalism and antiracism has often been expressed in a language of race and identity rooted in a rigid system of immutable differences (Hall, 1997; Ang, 2001). The challenge is to deconstruct race and ethnicity in a language that is critical of new racisms as well as the ways in which racial and ethnic difference is seized and diffused by market multiculturalism. While some theorists have used elements of postmodern theory to develop a “resistance multiculturalism” sensitive to shifting social meanings and floating racial signifiers (see McLaren, 1994), they have rarely explored the political possibilities of “ludic postmodernism” (parody, pastiche, irony) as a critical response to multicultural ideologies. If part of postmodernism as an intellectual movement includes self-reflexivity, self-parody, and the rejection of a foundational “truth,” for example, the various racial and ethnic categories reified under multiculturalism are perhaps open to revision and contestation (Hutcheon, 1989). To develop this particular postmodern critique of multiculturalism, I draw on three case studies concerned with identity and representation in North American popular media. The first case considers vocal impersonation as a disruption to the visual primacy of race by examining the stand-up comedy films of Dave Chappelle, Russell Peters, and Margaret Cho. The second case turns to the postmodern bodies of cyborgs and humanoid robots in the science fiction film I, Robot (2004) as a racial metaphor at the crossroads of whiteness, inhumanity, and redemption. The final case discusses the politics of irony in relation to ethnolinguistic identity and debates surrounding sports mascots. Each case study recycles racial and ethnic stereotypes for a variety of political purposes, drawing out the connections and tensions between postmodernism and multiculturalism. A postmodern critique of multiculturalism may offer antiracist politics an understanding of race and ethnicity rooted in a strategic indeterminacy, which allows for multidimensional political coalitions directed against wider socioeconomic inequalities. / Education, Faculty of / Kinesiology, School of / Graduate

"Longer works of fiction," a character in William Gaddis's JR complains of the current literary scene, are now "dismissed as classics and remain . . . largely unread due to the effort involved in reading and turning any more than two hundred pages" (527). This study argues that despite most literary critics constructing American postmodernism as a movement that privileges short works, in contrast to the encyclopedic masterworks of modernism, there are in fact a large number of artistically sophisticated contemporary novels of encyclopedic scope that demonstrate often ignored lines of continuity from works like James Joyce's Ulysses. In arguing this, I attempt not just to draw attention to a neglected strain in contemporary American fiction, but also to provide a more accurate context in which those few recent encyclopedic novels that have assumed centrality, like Gravity's Rainbow, might be evaluated. In doing so, this thesis also seeks to demonstrate the pivotal position of William Gaddis who, despite publishing four impressive novels that engage with the legacy of modernism and pre-empt elements of postmodernism, has been excluded from most studies dealing with the transition between the two movements. Through detailed readings of four encyclopedic novels - Gaddis's The Recognitions, Don DeLillo's Underworld, Richard Powers's The Gold Bug Variations, and David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest - I show Gaddis's continuation of encyclopedic modernism, the importance of his example to later writers, and the continuing vitality of the encyclopedic novel beyond the defined limits of modernism. However, as these novels try to encompass the full circle of knowledge, in order to do justice to their diverse learning I have adopted a different approach in each chapter. Very broadly, they attempt to encircle art, psychology, science, and literature, which, taken together, attempt to synthesise a defence of the contemporary encyclopedic novel. While minimalist writers from Raymond Carver to Ann Beattie have affirmed that less is more, this thesis argues that, in some cases, more really is more.

This study presents a sociology of art knowledge. It explores relationships between art knowledge and institutional structures, making visible how and why certain conceptions of art are hierarchized and generalized so as to be considered essential to the nature of all art. It renders problematic the existing situation in which the art traditionally taught in schools and universities is, for the most part, insular and culturally singular in basis, and examines why this cultural singularity persists in a society which is culturally pluralistic. The thesis is that the university art department has the monopoly on defining, legitimating, and perpetuating this insular and culturally singular art knowledge for transmission through the school' system to all cultural and social groups. The ways in which the university effects art knowledge are discussed in terms of ' the university's curricular structuring and disciplinary ties; its social role as patron, producer, definer, legitimator, and socializer in the arts; and in terms of its ability to neutralize "avant-garde" attacks, including the postmodernist incursion of popular culture into the realm of "sacred" culture. The theoretical framework of this critical analysis is a sociology of knowledge, and the materials for analysis were obtained by reviewing public documents on art programs, policy on the arts in postsecondary education, and a cross-disciplinary selection of literature in social theory, educational theory, aesthetics, and art history. The institutional structures and norms described throughout the study present significant resistance to the postmodernist commitment to challenge conceptual parameters and hierarchies of art knowledge that hinder a broadening of the cultural base of art. The study makes imperative the need to seriously consider this resistance if educational systems are to embrace the artistic activities of a diverse population and if art is to move into a more vital and relevant role in society. It makes imperative for sociological study of art systems (which in the past has concentrated almost exclusively on the role of museums, galleries, critics, dealers, and artists' "lofts") to take into account the role of the university art department as a primary institutional basis of art knowledge, and as a definer of cultural knowledge about art. / Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies / Graduate

"Encountering 'this season's retrieval': Historical Fiction, Literary Postmodernism and the Novels of Peter Ackroyd" engages the novels Peter Ackroyd has published, and situates them within broader generic considerations and critical dialogue. Part I, an extended prefatorial apparatus, places Ackroyd and his published fiction within three historicocritical contexts: the problem of author-as-reliable-source and the disparate histories of (a) the historical novel and (b) postmodernism in general (and literary postmodernism in particular). By interrogating the histories and points-of-contention of these areas, this Part aims to problematize critical discourse enveloping Ackroyd's fiction. Part II, comprised of four chapters, discusses specific groupings of Ackroyd's novels. After providing an overview of relevant aspects of the novels and their reception by critics, Chapter A, "Moulding History with Pastiche in The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde. Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem and Milton in America." considers the multiple functioning of pastiche—often considered a mainstay postmodern implement—in Ackroyd's work. The chapter concludes that rather than achieving a singular effect in the novels, pastiche works in divergent manners and confounds the reading of past historical actuality they ostensibly represent. Chapter B, "The Presence of the Past: Comedic and Non-Realist Historicism in The Great Fire of London and First Light." provides an overview of relevant aspects of the novels, and then analyzes how the presence of comedy in otherwise sombre historical fiction interrupts the realism of the narrative. This chapter argues that while camp comic effects disrupt the authority of quasi-historiographic techniques they cannot fully subvert realism and so create a suspensive modality. Chapter C, "PastlPresent: The Uses of History in Hawksmoor. Chatterton. The House of Doctor Dee and English Music." interrogates elements of the past-present fugue trajectories of these novels in order to problematize schematic readings of their supposed cultural politics. Finally, Chapter D, "Those Conventional Concluding Remarks: The Plato Papers. (National) History and Politics," places Ackroyd's most recent novel (one uncharacteristically set in the future) within the preoccupations of his earlier fiction. The chapter concludes with a brief outline of future scholarship that would investigate the national Englishness constructed throughout Ackroyd's biographical and novelistic work. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate