Word: postmodern
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...editor emeritus of The Harvard Salient. “Conservative” in habit and disposition, but not in ideology, his column, “Modernity and Its Discontents,” returns for a fifth and final semester. It will critically survey the absurdities and excesses of the postmodern Academy on alternate Thursdays...
...rise to the modern novel, what's the 21st century giving us? Well, we've gone from industrialized printing to electronic replication so cheap, fast and easy, it greases the skids of literary production to the point of frictionlessness. From a modern capitalist marketplace, we've moved to a postmodern, postcapitalist bazaar where money is increasingly optional. And in place of a newly minted literate middle class, we now have a global audience of billions, with a literacy rate of 82% and rising...
...allow students who are interested in English literature’s diverse origins and vast diffusions the ability to pursue that course of study.Unfortunately, the descriptions of the common-ground modules in the department’s proposal muddle the purity of the designers’ intentions. Littered with postmodern jargon, these “modules” become parodies of themselves. The idea of learning about the “arrivals” inherent in English writing is stimulating, but unless one is able to weed through terms like “embarrassment of riches” in order...
...yeah, there's the sublime architecture: Morris Lapidus' pioneering postmodern hotel, renovated but still towering over the Atlantic like an elegantly curved block of sun-bleached coral...
...Postmodern Postpolitics