Irishman Samuel Beckett is one of the most celebrated and at the same time bewildering authors of the twentieth century.

Jan 26, 2009 - Matthew Tanner

This essay focuses on the similarities between the Romantics and the Postmodernists while accenting the meaning between the two.

Mar 10, 2011 - Laura Tucker

The nature of historical knowledge, historical research and history writing have been challenged and questioned by postmodernism.

Dec 30, 2009 - Lito Apostolakou

An understanding of postmodernism is difficult for many people. In this article postmodernism is explained so anyone can understand it.

Apr 8, 2011 - Malcolm Logan

Has history collapsed under the influence of postmodernism? Is writing history essays a futile exercise since the reality is only a subjective creation of the historian?

Jan 11, 2010 - Lito Apostolakou

A look at historian Gertrude Himmelfarb's argument against the postmodernist study of history.

Jan 7, 2011 - Iemima Ploscariu

The humanistic tradition in interpreting literature upholds the notion that one should study literature for its own sake.

Sep 15, 2010 - Maureen Cutajar

American novelist John Barth's essay "The Literature of Exhaustion" describes the modern state of the novel and how to transcend the past.

Jan 27, 2011 - Megan Summers

Literary Criticism reassures English majors that their field of study is intellectual and philosophical, as well as requiring unique and useful skills.

Feb 23, 2009 - Elisabeth Sharber

The modern woman, Esther Greenwood, is deconstructed into a post-modern individual.

Jan 21, 2010 - Melissa Howard

Is postmodernism a handy catch-all phrase for eclectism, or an end-of-history movement? Either way, every art form seems to be irredeemably affected by it.

May 12, 2010 - David Porter

Postmodern historian Hayden White was influential in pushing a more literary look at historical study.

Sep 30, 2010 - Iemima Ploscariu

In his Archaeology of Knowledge, Michel Foucault questions the traditional premises of history and the ways primary documents are used.

Sep 3, 2010 - Lito Apostolakou

Now ten years old, Wes Craven's postmodern slasher flick Scream still gives laughs and thrills with its knowing and ironic style of horror.

Oct 5, 2007 - Jem Bloomfield

For a relatively small island, Ireland's literature - the third oldest in Europe after Greek and Latin - has made an enormous contribution to the world

Dec 30, 2010 - Geoff Ward

Writing on the subject of the environment includes fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction, as part of a tradition of literature focusing on nature.

Dec 21, 2008 - Elaine Walker

The cinematization of literature is so prevalent and universal one could well ask: where would cinema be without the written word?

Dec 2, 2009 - Barry Gibbons

Ray Bradbury's near-future tale of a nation built around a false identity and acquiescence through baseless entertainment is a precautionary omen.

Oct 23, 2009 - Nicholas Morine

The literature review forms an integral part of a dissertation. But what is the literature review and how should the literature review be written?

Mar 5, 2011 - Rolly Pelovangu

This essay looks at when postmodernism began, the atomic bombs, and trauma.

Jan 4, 2011 - Laura Tucker