O conceito de região em três registros. Exemplificando com o Nordeste brasileiro by José William Vesentini

“…It also contains a critical summary of three main conceptions concerning the Northeast region: one of them is traditional and focus on the landscape; the other one is modern and its concerns lay on the territorial division of labor; finally, the last one is postmodern and puts emphasis on the fact that this region has been an invention – produced by certain politicians, intellectuals and the media – since the 1920’s. …”
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Fiction romanesque et histoire du féminisme : à propos de La Main gauche de la nuit  by Justine Muller

“…Le Guin when staging androgynous beings in The Left Hand of Darkness builds itself on the earlier feminist currents and announces a series of other currents that integrate, for the majority, Postmodern ideas that started to spread in the 60s. …”
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Méprise, Errance et Métaphore Paternelle dans American Pastoral de Philip Roth by Béatrice PIRE

“…Following the tradition of postmodern writing, Roth’s novel explores two forms of errors, Zuckerman’s mistake regarding his reading of Levov and Levov’s own failure regarding his life. …”
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What happens when one picks up the Greek text? by J. G. van der Watt

“…It is argued that the chosen philosophical framework (for instance, a modernist or postmodern approach) determines the way in which any process of translation is approached. …”
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CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO THE CHANGE MANAGEMENT IN FOREIGN STUDIES by E. Shironina

“…It has been shown, that postmodern conceptual approach is an attempt to build an intelligent object (process of change) in all three dimensions.…”
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Number 1: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease by Norman L Jones

“…It may seem odd to start the new millennium with an editorial eulogizing the past, but even in these "postmodern" days of chaos, complexity and ordered unpredictability, the past can be seen to have a huge influence on the present and the future. …”
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Baudrillard’ın Simülasyon Kuramında Kitle İletişim Araçlarının Yeri (The Place of Mass Media in Baudrillard's Simulation Theory) by Hüseyin Aydın

“…Baudrillard, simülasyon kuramıyla postmodern çağı tarif etmekte ve bu çağa özgü yeni bir ontoloji ortaya koymaktadır. …”
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Interpreting Monastic Cartularies in Northwest Europe, 900-1200: Thirty Years of Scholarship by Robert Berkhofer

“…Since the publication of Les cartulaires in 1993, the study of cartularies has evolved in two main directions: as part of a broader documentary culture and studying regional or textual patterns using digital tools and postmodern approaches. This article offers an overview of interpretive trends since then, focusing on monastic cartularies in northwestern Europe in the Central Middle Ages. …”
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Être ou ne pas être subversives ? by Dominique Bourque

“…The preliminary results of an Internet survey conducted among French Canadian young lesbians indicate, notably, that the majority of the 362 respondents see themselves through the apparatus of sex and sexual difference rather than through the expected de/constructivist perspective, associated with the Postmodern era. Is this a consequence of the hypersexualisation of young women in the medias and the pornographisation of popular culture? …”
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Esthétique du kitsch et ruralité dans le cinéma irlandais by Isabelle Le Corff

“…Indigenous filmmakers foster the iconography of the cottage with a new sense of irony, in the spirit of Camp, to castigate conservative national values. The postmodern kitsch productions gradually promote innovative national values that testify of a new creative facility in Ireland.…”
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Savoir et valeur. Pour une conception émancipatrice des « Éducations à » by Michel Fabre

“…This perspective criticizes postmodern relativism that often supports the PSHE. …”
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Narrative preaching - yet another perspective by J. J. van Rensburg

“…This interest was particularly enhanced by the postmodern emphasis on a hermeneutic approach and the importance of narratives and metaphors. …”
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Conceptual Metaphors in Visual Language The Graphic Novel City of Glass by Ilana Shiloh

“…Two years later Auster turned it into the first part of The New York Trilogy, which has since become one of the most iconic works of postmodern fiction. Artists Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli have adapted Auster’s novella into a graphic novel and their version figures on the list of the best comic books in the 20th century. …”
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A Critical Analysis of the Book” Ambiguity Function in the Process of Reading a Text” by Maryam Raminnia

“…More evidently, reducing the ambiguity in stories, merely modern and postmodern ones, equaling the ambiguity with its complexities and discursivities, and also downgrading the ambiguity which are perceived as strategies for maintaining the author’s authority, are the main motives for writing this paper.…”
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(Post)utopian Vineland: Ideological Conflicts in the 1960s and the 1980s by Lovorka Gruic Grmusa

“…This paper delineates a revolutionary period in postmodern America: the sixties from the vantage point of the eighties as presented in Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland. …”
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CONSUMER BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT IN A METAMODERN ORGANIZATION by G. N. Ryazanova

“…The philosophical concepts of  modernity and postmodernity, which have a kaleidoscopic effect on the mentality, values and behavior of economic  agents, transform the economic eco-system. …”
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Posthumanism: History, goals and imminent perils by Gajić Aleksandar, Despotović Ljubiša

“…The final part of the Paper concerns the critique of posthumanism from the perspective of Christian personalism, which opens up possibilities for us to have a different view of the problems of postmodern living that posthumanism wants to overcome.…”
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PROPOSING A SHIFT FROM CLASSICAL PENTECOSTAL BIBLE READING AND BACONIAN COMMON SENSE TO A SCIENTIFIC HERMENEUTICS by M. Nel

“…Since the 1990s, Pentecostal scholarship has revisited early Pentecostals’ use of Baconian common sense. In postmodern times, it is important to define a balanced Pentecostal hermeneutic to reconsider the use of Baconian common sense realism in Bible reading practices. …”
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Le continuum Gibson : le Cyberespace et les récits du Mervyn Kihn de Gibson by Thomas A. Bredehoft

“…Ultimately, rather than presenting cyberspace as a liberatory, utopian space, as some postmodern theorists would have it, Gibson’s treatment of hallucinatory and futuristic iconographies suggests that cyberspace functions as the embodiment of past "Dreams" of the future, dreams which, Gibson hints, are at least partially responsible for the "near dystopia" of the present.…”
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Pistes pour renouveler l’interculturel en éducation  by Fred Dervin

“…As such the field often contributes to objectivising and culturalist “interculturality”, guiding actors (learners) towards monoculturalism instead of a postmodern and constructivist understanding of it. I shall try to demonstrate how systematic and reflexive work on the notion at school could allow renewing interculturality, by examining the notions of culture, identity and representation but also the role the “other” plays, contexts of interaction and discourses on the Self and the Other. …”
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