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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
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Pryzdia, Michael R. "The Wake of Imagination and the Postmodern Meaning of ‘Meaning.’," American Culture Studies Program, Bowling Green State University, May 1994.
This dissertation is an attempt to refute the notion that the postmodern era necessarily represents the death of the imaginative faculty. Drawing on the work of Richard Kearney, Joseph Campbell, Jacques Derrida, Fredric Jameson, Jean Baudrillard, William Irwin Thompson, Terence McKenna and others, the dissertation explores the possibility for a reemergence of mythical thought in a postmodern moment that takes us beyond the “dead end” represented as normative by some interpreters of postmodern and post-structuralist theory. It is argued, for example, that Derridean deconstruction does not fully dismantle Western hierarchies; rather it acts to reinscribe them since it continues to operate solely within the confines of a Western metaphysical tradition.
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