Download or read book A Farewell to the Earth and Kepler 438b A Noveramatry written by Mehdi Ghasemi and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Farewell to the Earth and Kepler-438b: A Noveramatry (a combination of novel, drama and poetry all in one line) is a dystopian fiction which offers a different vision of the earth's near future. It depicts the cataclysmic decline, sociopolitical dysfunction and environmental ruin of the earth, worse than it has ever been in human history. In such a dreadful climate, some influential wealthy persons and families decide to escape the earth and move to Kepler-438b. The noveramatry challenges world leaders, politicians, tycoons and readers and makes them ponder on the current status of our planet. It also warns them of the serious consequences of their decisions and actions.
Download or read book A Farewell to the Earth and Kepler 438b written by Mehdi Ghasemi and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dystopian noveramatry offers a different vision of the earth's near future. It depicts the cataclysmic decline, sociopolitical dysfunction and environmental ruin of the earth, worse than it has ever been in human history. In this climate, some influential wealthy persons and families decide to escape the earth and move to Kepler-438b. This fiction challenges world leaders, politicians, tycoons and readers and makes them ponder on the current and future status of our planet. It also warns them of the serious consequences of their decisions and actions.
Download or read book Opening Boundaries Toward Finnish Heterolinational Literatures written by Mehdi Ghasemi and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening Boundaries: Toward Finnish Heterolinational Literatures is a part of our project, entitled "Toward a More Inclusive and Comprehensive Finnish Literature," conducted at the Finnish Literature Society (SKS) and the University of Tampere during 2018-2019. This cross-cultural collection of texts demonstrates the emergence and growth of new heterogeneous, multicultural and multilingual literatures within the Finnish literary canon. The anthology includes some literary outputs by twenty-four immigrant authors, living in Finland from sixteen different nationalities, and their works in ten different languages make this collection multilingual. However, for the sake of readability, the translation of some of their works in Finnish or English has been offered.
Download or read book Digimodernism written by Alan Kirby and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost without anybody noticing, a new cultural paradigm has come center stage, displacing an exhausted and increasingly marginalised postmodernism. Dr. Alan Kirby calls this cultural paradigm digimodernism, a name comprising both its central technical mode and its privileging of the fingers and thumbs in its use. The increasing irrelevancy of postmodernism requires a new theory to underpin our current digital culture.
Download or read book Movement and Change in Literature Language and Society written by Joel Kuortti and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the themes of movement and change in human societies. The chapters deal with spatial and temporal mobilities in language, literature, culture and society. The theme is addressed from theoretical, critical, historical and practical perspectives, through discussions of sometimes controversial issues such as political movements, identity, body image, sexuality, and violence. The volume includes chapters using multiple methodologies and apply them to a variety of materials. The underlying idea is that of understanding time and place as movement. Human societies and interaction are never static, and the volume helps us to see how the changing conditions determine the functioning of societies and human life.
Download or read book The Theater of Transformation written by Kerstin Schmidt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theater of Transformation: Postmodernism in American Drama offers a fresh and innovative reading of the contemporary experimental American theater scene and navigates through the contested and contentious relationship between postmodernism and contemporary drama. This book addresses gender and class as well as racial issues in the context of a theoretical discussion of dramatic texts, textuality, and performance. Transformation is contemporary drama's answer to the questions of postmodernism and a major technique in the development of a postmodern language for the stage. In order to demonstrate the multi-faceted nature of the postmodern theater of transformation, this study draws on a wide range of plays: from early experimental plays of the 1960s by Jean-Claude van Itallie through feminist plays by Megan Terry and Rochelle Owens to more recent drama by the African-American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. The Theater of Transformation: Postmodernism in American Drama is written for anyone interested in contemporary American drama and theater as well as in postmodernism and contemporary literary theory. It appeals even more broadly to a readership intrigued by the ubiquitous aspects of popular culture, by feminism and ethnicity, and by issues pertaining to the so-called 'society of spectacle' and the study of contemporary media.
Download or read book The Politics of Postmodernity written by James Good and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-23 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his study Modernity and the Holocaust, Zygmunt Bauman contrasts the hopes and expectations of the modernising world of the nineteenth century with the real outcomes of the twentieth century, where the very conditions of modernity have led to the mass destruction of humanity and of those early hopes for the betterment of humankind. This volume explores the possibilities left to those once modernising societies, not only in terms of the worlds they have constructed but also in discerning the novel conditions which the closure of modernity entails. That closure, in part the completion of industrialisation and the social order that went with it, and in part the dislocation of the kinds of social knowledge used to understand it, has raised profound and disturbing questions about the character of this brave new world and the ways in which its governance and the goal of the good society can be understood. This volume explores some of the current vicissitudes of modernity, especially in relation to the crises of the political, and the political consequences of new technologies.
Download or read book The Postmodern Moment written by Stanley Trachtenberg and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1985-12-23 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays provides an intellectual, social, and historical background for the postmodern movement in the literary, visual, and performing arts in America today. Both creative expression and critical thought are examined in literature, painting and sculpture, dance, music, photography, architecture, theatre, and film. The author of each essay describes and analyzes the ways in which individuals become conscious of, represent, and ultimately assimilate changes in their respective art forms. Included in each essay is a synthesis of critical issues, as well as a discussion of representative figures and their works. Also, a broad bibliographic component supplements each essay, including discussions of resource materials, checklists, and a comprehensive annotated bibliography. In his introduction, editor Stanley Trachtenberg provides an overview of postmodernism. In addition, the volume contains an appendix of related European and Latin American expressions and a chronology of historical and cultural events and individual achievements.
Download or read book New Media Cultural Studies and Critical Theory after Postmodernism written by R. Samuels and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-12-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that we have moved into a new cultural period, automodernity, which represents a social, psychological, and technological reaction to postmodernity. In fact, by showing how individual autonomy is now being generated through technological and cultural automation, Samuels posits that we must rethink modernity and postmodernity.
