The aim of this article is to assess the role of postmodern parody in the deconstruction and the reconfiguration of the literary canon. The canon is a concept and a heuristic metaphor which in Romania has started being discussed in a systematic manner only after 1989. The Romanian version of postmodernism is undoubtedly indebted to the Western model, but its promoters (writers of the ’80s, main...

In the past decade or so the term postmodernism has captured the attention of a generation of artists, intellectuals, authors, and professionals to such a degree that the term has even crept into the comparatively sober psychoanalytic literature, the last place one would have expected to find it. Yet any marriage between the psychoanalytic treatment perspective with its painstaking, laborious p...

postmodernism leads to epochal changes in culture, technology, economic, art and other areas. management as a multidisciplinary science is being affected by this new paradigm. also, marketing as a dynamic area of management and due to communication with people and society being affected by culture and individuals' attitudes changes and especially postmodernism. many believe that postmodern...

The timing of these two special issues on Postmodernism, Marketing and the Consumer (Vol. 10, No. 3 and Vol. 11, No. 4) is, indeed, curious. On the one hand, postmodernism is just becoming a recognized discourse within business disciplines, and these special issues represent the first concerted effort within the consumer research and marketing disciplines to treat the subject. On the other hand...

This paper explores the implications of postmodernism upon a historically modern institution by articulating and applying three components of postmodernity to the academic library: the rise of local narratives, the performativity of knowledge, and the notion of the cyborg, a humanmachine hybrid inhabited, in many ways, by the academic librarian. In his 1999 article “Towards a Postmodern Context...

One of the least contestable features of postmodernism is its refusal to accept the hierarchy of value and élitism implied in the d istinction between high culture and popular culture. In the genealogies frequently circulated , postmodernism is pictured in opposition to two versions of modernism: a modernism codified and conquered by the academy and museum, incorporated as a high cultural artef...

This paper explores the association between postmodernism and interpretivism. The paper’s objective is to show that the interpretivist research paradigm shows very clear postmodernist traits. After defining the two concepts the paper attempts to answer the research question whether interpretivism is a typical postmodernist approach to Information Systems science and research. The paper is conce...

The fundamental questions to be addressed are these: What is the impact of "postmodernism" on the relationship between philosophy and science? What are the possible consequences of the postmodernist whirlwind on the status of philosophy in contemporary culture? And, does postmodernism add new questions to the gnawing issue over the degree, if any, to which a philosopher is a scientist? It would...