Search Results - "postmodernism"

Feminist methodology challenges and choices / by Ramazanoglu, Caroline, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…-- Conclusion -- PART II FREEDOM, FRAGMENTATION AND RESISTANCE -- 5 Escape from epistemology? The impact of postmodern -- thought on feminist methodology -- Introduction -- Postmodern thought -- Postmodern freedoms: sweeping away the foundations of -- feminist methodology -- Thus far but no further? …”
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Feminist methodology challenges and choices / by Ramazanoglu, Caroline, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…-- Conclusion -- PART II FREEDOM, FRAGMENTATION AND RESISTANCE -- 5 Escape from epistemology? The impact of postmodern -- thought on feminist methodology -- Introduction -- Postmodern thought -- Postmodern freedoms: sweeping away the foundations of -- feminist methodology -- Thus far but no further? …”
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Explorations in social theory from metatheorizing to rationalization / by Ritzer, George

Table of Contents: “…in sociological theory -- The implications of postmodern social theory for metatheorizing in sociology -- Rationalization and deprofessionalization of physicians -- The McDonaldization of society -- Hyperrationality: an extension of Weberian and neo-Weberian theory -- Mannheim's theory of rationalization: an alternative resource for the McDonaldization thesis? …”
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A companion to Faulkner studies

Table of Contents: “…Matthew Ramsey -- Biographical criticism / Kevin Railey -- Modernist criticism / Debrah Raschke -- Postmodern criticism / Terrell L. Tebbetts -- Cultural criticism / Peter Lurie -- Psychological criticism / Doreen Fowler -- Feminist and gender criticism / Caroline Carvill -- Rhetorical and reader-response criticism / Pamela Knights -- Popular-culture criticism / M. …”
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Critically reading the theory and methods of archaeology : an introductory guide / by Gibbon, Guy E., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…-- Are there skeptical postmodern themes in the argument? -- Are facts clearly distinguished from opinions and other claims? …”
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Shaping Words to Fit the Soul : The Southern Ritual Grounds of Afro-Modernism / by Grandt, Jürgen E., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…"The biggest colored show on earth" : Afro-modernism, hip-hop, and postmodern blackness.…”
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Explorations in social theory from metatheorizing to rationalization / by Ritzer, George

Table of Contents: “…in sociological theory -- The implications of postmodern social theory for metatheorizing in sociology -- Rationalization and deprofessionalization of physicians -- The McDonaldization of society -- Hyperrationality: an extension of Weberian and neo-Weberian theory -- Mannheim's theory of rationalization: an alternative resource for the McDonaldization thesis? …”
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A companion to Faulkner studies

Table of Contents: “…Matthew Ramsey -- Biographical criticism / Kevin Railey -- Modernist criticism / Debrah Raschke -- Postmodern criticism / Terrell L. Tebbetts -- Cultural criticism / Peter Lurie -- Psychological criticism / Doreen Fowler -- Feminist and gender criticism / Caroline Carvill -- Rhetorical and reader-response criticism / Pamela Knights -- Popular-culture criticism / M. …”
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Critically reading the theory and methods of archaeology : an introductory guide / by Gibbon, Guy E., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…-- Are there skeptical postmodern themes in the argument? -- Are facts clearly distinguished from opinions and other claims? …”
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Shaping Words to Fit the Soul : The Southern Ritual Grounds of Afro-Modernism / by Grandt, Jürgen E., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…"The biggest colored show on earth" : Afro-modernism, hip-hop, and postmodern blackness.…”
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Urban underworlds a geography of twentieth-century American literature and culture / by Heise, Thomas, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…An overview and an underview: Uneven development and the social production of American underworlds -- Going down: Narratives of slumming in the ethnic underworlds of lower New York, 1890s-1910s -- Degenerate "Sex and the City": The underworlds of New York and Paris in the work of Djuna Barnes and Claude McKay, 1910s-1930s -- The black underground: Urban riots, the black underclass, and the work of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, 1940s-1950s -- Wasted dreams: John Rechy, Thomas Pynchon, and the underworlds of Los Angeles, 1960s -- White spaces and urban ruins: Postmodern geographies in Don DeLillo's underworld, 1950s-1990s.…”
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Urban underworlds a geography of twentieth-century American literature and culture / by Heise, Thomas, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…An overview and an underview: Uneven development and the social production of American underworlds -- Going down: Narratives of slumming in the ethnic underworlds of lower New York, 1890s-1910s -- Degenerate "Sex and the City": The underworlds of New York and Paris in the work of Djuna Barnes and Claude McKay, 1910s-1930s -- The black underground: Urban riots, the black underclass, and the work of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, 1940s-1950s -- Wasted dreams: John Rechy, Thomas Pynchon, and the underworlds of Los Angeles, 1960s -- White spaces and urban ruins: Postmodern geographies in Don DeLillo's underworld, 1950s-1990s.…”
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Puerto Rico in the American century a history since 1898 / by Ayala, César J.

Table of Contents: “…1898 - Background and Immediate Consequences -- Reshaping Puerto Rico's Economy, 1898-1934 -- Political and Social Struggles in a New Colonial Context, 1900-1930 -- Americanization and Its Discontents, 1898-1929 -- Economic Depression and Political Crisis: The Turbulent Thirties -- Cultural Debates in an Epoch of Crisis: National Interpretations in the Thirties -- Turning Point in the Forties: Rise of the Partido Popular Democrático -- Birth of the Estado Libre Asociado -- Transformation and Relocation: Puerto Rico's Operation Bootstrap -- Politics and Culture in the Epoch of PPD Hegemony -- PPD Hegemony Undermined: From Mobilization to Recession, 1960-1975 -- Rethinking the Past, Betting on the Future: Cultural Debates from the Sixties to the Eighties -- Economic Stagnation and Political Deadlock, 1976-1992 -- Politics and Social Conflict in the Epoch of Neoliberalism, 1992-2004 -- Neonationalism, Postmodernism, and Other Debates.…”
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Puerto Rico in the American century a history since 1898 / by Ayala, César J.

Table of Contents: “…1898 - Background and Immediate Consequences -- Reshaping Puerto Rico's Economy, 1898-1934 -- Political and Social Struggles in a New Colonial Context, 1900-1930 -- Americanization and Its Discontents, 1898-1929 -- Economic Depression and Political Crisis: The Turbulent Thirties -- Cultural Debates in an Epoch of Crisis: National Interpretations in the Thirties -- Turning Point in the Forties: Rise of the Partido Popular Democrático -- Birth of the Estado Libre Asociado -- Transformation and Relocation: Puerto Rico's Operation Bootstrap -- Politics and Culture in the Epoch of PPD Hegemony -- PPD Hegemony Undermined: From Mobilization to Recession, 1960-1975 -- Rethinking the Past, Betting on the Future: Cultural Debates from the Sixties to the Eighties -- Economic Stagnation and Political Deadlock, 1976-1992 -- Politics and Social Conflict in the Epoch of Neoliberalism, 1992-2004 -- Neonationalism, Postmodernism, and Other Debates.…”
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Listening to the whispers re-thinking ethics in healthcare /

Table of Contents: “…Craddock Lee -- Teleology, the modern moral dichotomy, and postmodern bioethics in the 21st century / John Paul Slosar -- Reflections of moral dilemmas and patterns of ethical decision making in five clinical physical therapists / Bruce H. …”
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Marketing literature and posthumous legacies : the symbolic capital of Leonid Andreev and Vladimir Nabokov / by Leving, �I�Uri�i

Table of Contents: “…; "Nabokov-7": Russian postmodernism in search of a national identity ; Interpreting voids: Nabokov's last incomplete novel, The Original of Laura -- Conclusion.…”
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Listening to the whispers re-thinking ethics in healthcare /

Table of Contents: “…Craddock Lee -- Teleology, the modern moral dichotomy, and postmodern bioethics in the 21st century / John Paul Slosar -- Reflections of moral dilemmas and patterns of ethical decision making in five clinical physical therapists / Bruce H. …”
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Marketing literature and posthumous legacies : the symbolic capital of Leonid Andreev and Vladimir Nabokov / by Leving, �I�Uri�i

Table of Contents: “…; "Nabokov-7": Russian postmodernism in search of a national identity ; Interpreting voids: Nabokov's last incomplete novel, The Original of Laura -- Conclusion.…”
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Ecocritical theory new European approaches /

Table of Contents: “…/ Christopher Cohoon -- Cybernetics and social systems theory / Hannes Bergthaller -- Ecocentric postmodern theory: interrelations between ecological, quantum, and postmodern theories / Serpil Oppermann -- Affinity studies and open systems: a non-equilibrium, ecocritical reading of Goethe's Faust / Heather I. …”
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Ecocritical theory new European approaches /

Table of Contents: “…/ Christopher Cohoon -- Cybernetics and social systems theory / Hannes Bergthaller -- Ecocentric postmodern theory: interrelations between ecological, quantum, and postmodern theories / Serpil Oppermann -- Affinity studies and open systems: a non-equilibrium, ecocritical reading of Goethe's Faust / Heather I. …”
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