Browsing by Subject "Postmodernism"
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Arundhati Roy’s fiction: mapping the micro-narratives of the marginalized
(Brac University, 2019-04)Postmodernism starts with shifting of ideas from modernism. In postmodernism, authors adopt multiple features like historic-metafiction, magic realism, intertextuality and many more. One of the major changes that happen ... -
Deciphering Hanya Yanagihara’s o Paradise as a postmodern text
(Brac University, 2023-04)"To Paradise" (2022) by Hanya Yanagihara takes the readers into a thrilling adventure in an alternate history of the American map of 1893, a semi-present representation of 1993 and a dystopian future of 2093. With class ... -
Exploring identity construction and livestreaming culture in the films Nerve (2016), “Nosedive” (from Black Mirror, 2016), and Spree (2020)
(Brac University, 2023-12)This dissertation aims to explore the relationship between virtual identity and live-streaming culture in order to understand how individuals in a postmodern society construct their identity and find meaning in their ... -
Exploring magical realism and postmodernism in Salman Rushdie’s Victory City
(BRAC University, 2024-05)Victory City takes readers to a fascinating adventure into the past of one of India’s prosperous cities, Vijayanagar. In Salman Rushdie’s alternative storytelling of the history of the city, the central focus is put on ... -
Hair tied back
(Brac University, 2023-05)Hair Tied Back is a story inspired by Octavia E. Butler’s “The Book of Martha,” a short story about a protagonist who converses with God to come up with a new method of encouraging humans to find joy, hope and determination ... -
Meta modernism: The emergence of a new era and the preservation of cultural artifacts through virtual reality and non-fungible tokens
(Brac University, 2022-09)In philosophy, art, design, film, and other areas of human endeavor, there is a new movement emerging, which is called metamodernism. In a wide range of ways, metamodernism is conveyed in several ways. The Modernist and ... -
Modernism and postmodernism: a study of three contemporary postmodern novels
(BRAC University, 2014-08)This thesis aims to shed light on the much discussed feature of modernism and postmodernism. Through a close reading of Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five and Thomas Pynchon’s The ... -
A postmodern study of Jordan Peele’s psychological horror films Get Out and Us
(Brac University, 2024-04)Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017) and Us (2019) are two recent unconventional psychological horror films. These two films do not incorporate typical horror tropes like jump scares, ghosts, or mindless killings. These two are ... -
Postmodern worldview: the depiction of our time in Don DeLillo, Will Self and Salman Rushdie
(BRAC University, 2017-04-06)Postmodernism is one of the most discussed topics in contemporary world. It embraces various kinds of approaches to art making. It is a mixture of different artistic and popular styles and media. The term “postmodernism” ... -
Postmodernisation of Greek mythology in Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series
(BRAC University, 2024-05)The objective of this thesis is to identify and critically analyze the postmodern elements in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and explore how the author portrayed mythology in the modern-day setting. ... -
Postmodernism: crisis versus construction of identity
(BRAC University, 2014-08)The question of identity in literature is quite common. The trend of identity formation differs from pre-modern to modern stage and from modern stage to postmodern stage. Sometimes it seems very problematic and sometimes ... -
Representation of consumer culture in contemporary literature: from Roland Barthes' Mythologies to Will Self's The Sweet Smell of Psychosis
(BRAC University, 2016-08)Consumer culture, although a mark of industrial economy, has turned into the norm of advancement in the contemporary global society. The structure of modern capitalism is based on the production and consumption of goods. ... -
Revisiting the past: nostalgic postmodernism in British literature
(Brac University, 2019-04)There are more than five hundred novels published during the Victorian era still many British postmodernist writers recreate the Victorian setting, theme and characters in their works. The Victorian Era without a doubt is ... -
Treatment of time and history in the narration of postmodern literature: Kurt Vonnegut’s slaughterhouse- five, Martin Amis’s time’s arrow and Tim O’Brien’s how to tell a true war story
(BRAC University, 2017-08)Postmodernism is considered as one of the broad terms in contemporary cultural domain. Literature is perhaps the most familiar aspect where postmodernism can be understood. The issue of time and history is a vital aspect ...
