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After the Prestige: A Postmodern Analysis of Penn and Teller [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
By mocking the magic community and revealing the secret behind some of their tricks, Penn and Teller perform a kind of parodic and post-modern “anti-magic.” Penn and Teller display an artful use of rhetoric; in exposing the secrets and shortcomings of ...
Miller, Liz, Zompetti, Joseph P.
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Postmodernism in architecture and planning : what kind of style?

open access: yes
Is the phenomenon of postmodernism in architecture and planning a matter of superficial style, or does it represent something more fundamental? What kind of style is postmodernism, and what kind of style should postmodernism be? This paper offers answers
Bourassa, Steven
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Postmodernization: a phase we're going through? Management in social care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This paper considers the challenges facing managers of social care services in public sector organizations in the UK. Some theorists might argue that these challenges are the manifestation of a new postmodern era. It is argued here, however, that society
Harlow, E, Lawler, J
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Ideology, constitutional culture and institutional change: the EU constitution as reflection of Europe’s emergent postmodernism [PDF]

open access: yes
Using the example of the European Constitution, this paper argues that ideology plays a much more important role in institutional change than has been indicated hitherto in the literature.
Nikolay Wenzel
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The Victorian and the Historical in Post-Victorian Fiction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Zadanie pt. „Digitalizacja i udostępnienie w Cyfrowym Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego kolekcji czasopism naukowych wydawanych przez Uniwersytet Łódzki” nr 885/P-DUN/2014 dofinansowane zostało ze środków MNiSW w ramach działalności upowszechniającej ...
Bryk, Marta
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REALISM OR IDEALISM? PERSPECTIVES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY FROM A PRACTICING HISTORIAN

open access: yesHistory and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This review essay argues that the realist philosophy of history, as represented by Adam Timmins in Towards a Realist Philosophy of History, raises interesting questions about the nature of historical writing and challenges some of the foundations of idealist philosophy of history.
Stefan Berger
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A Comparative Analysis of The Trial of Dedan Kimathi, The Trials of Oba Ovonramwen and My Children! My Africa!: Implications for Postmodernist African Society

open access: yesABUAD Journal of the Humanities-AGIDIGBO, 2016
Between modernism and postmodernism, critics have continued to appraise literary texts in the light of their contributions to and implications for the society.
Sola Owonibi, Sunday Akinbulejo
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Postmodernism and Children’s Literature

open access: yes, 2007
All four of my own children clamored for the Sesame Street book titled, The Monster at the End of This Book. On each double page spread, Grover begged them, “Please don’t turn the page because there’s a monster at the end of this book and I am so scared ...
Atken, Adel
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Noël Carroll : eine Bibliographie [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Das Werk des Philosophen und Filmtheoretikers Noël Carroll ist außerordentlich vielgestaltig, über mehrere Disziplinen verstreut, umfaßt allgemeine Arbeiten zur ästhetischen Theorie (auf diesem Gebiet ist Carroll vor allem in den letzten Jahren aktiv ...
Wulff, Hans Jürgen
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