Stm

The keyword Stm is tagged in the following 3 articles.

Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried: PoStmodern Fiction for a PoStmodern War

August 31, 2011 - 3585 words | English » Vietnam

In the western history of human existence the event, idea, and act of war stands totemic in the landscape. Borders both physical and mental have been defined by its threat and execution, and its aura hangs heavily over the last century as the bloodiest in the entire... Read Article »

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Vietnam War Fiction Postmodernism Trauma Studies Tim O'Brien

PoStmodernism in Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle

April 14, 2011 - 1923 words | Literary Criticism » Kurt Vonnegut

“No damn cat, and no damn cradle.” (Vonnegut 66). This quote encompasses the satiric poStmodern themes of absolute truth in Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle. There are several significantly strong poStmodern concepts Vonnegut brings into view in this... Read Article »

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Kurt Vonnegut Postmodernism Cat's Cradle

Confabulation, Repression, and Memory Replacement: Remembering Creatively

October 14, 2010 - 3195 words | Psychology » Memory

The specific purpose of this paper is to discuss some of the factors that would permit an individual to dissociate himself from his true identity, including at a minimum threshold the change in knowledge of some personal events. It is not required that a person believe... Read Article »

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Confabulation Memory Memory Replacement STM LTM Imagination Inflation Alzheimers Amnesia Memory Repression