Modernism, in literature, is the basic concept of new methods through new reasoning. During the renaissance period of English history, the traditional values of Western civilization, which the Victorians had only begun to question, came to be questioned seriously by a number of new writers who saw society breaking down around them. The world was being looked at from a new perspective, mostly scientifically. Traditional literary forms were often discarded and new ones succeeded them as writers sought fresher ways of expressing what they took to be new kinds of experiences, or experience seen in new ways.…
“ The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” , “Nothing Gold can Stay”, and “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” are modernist works. “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner and Night are contemporary works. Modernism is modern thought, character, or practice. It is the modernist movement in the arts, the sets cultural tendencies and associated cultural movements. Contemporary works are set and written in the time it was written. It makes use of literary styles or techniques. It works in a non traditional form, comments on itself, and can be personal.…
Society has now entered a new, postmodern age, and we need new theories to understand it (33 marks)…
Many believed that social organisations and daily life were becoming outdated. There was a belief the values of society had become stagnant. A disbelief that the only way to move forward was based on moral and religious principles, but what was modernism?…
The Post Modernism period just came after the Modern period but it is not clear or impossible to be said when it came. In other words the modern Period was the time when the world was recovered from World War 2, which started globalization. The Post Modernism is a concept that arrived an era of academic study about in the mid-1980s. There is a variety of concepts, architecture, music, literature, fashion, art, film etc. In the 1980’s the political climate changed. During that time Post Modernism involves an important re – estimation of modern about culture, identify, history and the importance of classification language. It engages as black or white, straight or gay, male or female etc. The Post Modernism started with architecture. The Central…
a) Modernists believed that the traditional ways of life were no longer valid. They believed that those things in which men had traditionally found meaning (religion, patriotism, financial success) were no longer meaningful because of:…
We begin by going on a tour in which some leading figures of postmodernism are introduced: Jean-François Lyotard, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari and Michel Foucault. Some important distinctions are made: postmodernism is distinguished from modernism, then from postmodernity, and finally from post-structuralism. Three other important words are discussed: posthumanist, post-metaphysical and avant garde.…
CONTENTS Chapter INTRODUCTION 1. POSTMODERNISM: AN ANALYSIS 1.1 What is Postmodernism? 1.1.1 Origin of Postmodernism 1.1.2 Modernism Vs Postmodernism 1.1.2.1 Postmodernity Begins where Modernity Ends 1.1.2.2 Postmodernism is a Continuation of Modernism 1.1.3 Differentiating Postmodernism and Postmodernity 1.2 The Historical Development of Postmodernism 1.2.1 Martin Heidegger 1.2.2 Friedrich Nietzsche 1.3 Characteristics of Postmodernism 1.3.1 Shift of Emphasis 1.3.1.1 A Move from Meta-narratives to Mini-narratives 1.3.1.2 A Move to Question the Transparency of Language 1.3.1.3 A Move to Question the Objectivity 1.3.2 Religion in the Postmodern Philosophy 1.4 Challenges Offered by Postmodernism 2. POSTMODERN ETHICS:…
Postmodernism has been described as a new version of Western cultural imperialism. Discuss the relationship between postmodernism and 'postcolonialism'.…
3. “Has Modernism Failed?” by Suzi Gabik published 1984 by Thames and Hudsan in USA…
modernists felt the need to break with habits of the past; which engendered various and…
First, let us define what postmodern fiction is. The term “postmodern” is too vague to define simply because it encompasses a very large amount of subjects and there are too many discrepancies in defining its genuine characteristics. Vaguely, postmodern fiction is a literary movement after World War II against modernist literature. It stands to question the reality, hierarchy, and organization of the principles of our society through literature. It questions the social, political, and economic conditions of certain historic and present events. “While postmodern fiction challenges mimetic representation, it also offers a new, more overtly textual and self-reflexive form of representation that exposes its own filtered or biased quality” (Michael 43) Instead of focusing on identifying universal themes in a literary work, it seeks the instability and ambiguity of human experience, with many interpretations. Techniques such as resurrection/reconstruction, self-reflection, and multi-narratives are all applied conventions of postmodern fiction and allow us to stray from the regular conventions of modernism.…
Modernism is the time period that followed the Naturalism period. This period is also known for its series of culture shocks. For example, World War I was the war that occurred in Europe form 1914-1918. In fact, it helped boost the American economy because many European nations were now buying goods from the Americas. It was said to be the “War to End All Wars” because of the numerous conflictions between the European nations. World War I was followed by The Great Depression which had a major impact on the United States. It all began when the stock market crashed on October 29, 1929, otherwise known as Black Tuesday. It devastated many Americans because it put most of them out of work. The major drought in the mid-west, the Dust Bowl, was also during the same time as the depression. It devastated many more people and leaving them homeless and hungry, but the beginning of World War II soon brought America out of this overwhelming period. Literature was another key factor during the Modernism period. Two different types of literature emerged during this era including Imagism and Objectivism. Imagism is a “style that sought to recreate an image, not interpret or comment on it.” While Objectivism is “a poetic style in which the poets let the objects they rendered to speak for themselves. Since the American short story was very popular, the period became to be known as “the Age of the Short Story.” The Harlem Renaissance also surfaced at this time. It revolutionized the literary, artistic, and musical movement for African Americans. The authors of the Renaissance displayed what it was like to be black and live in a white dominated world.…
The term Postmodern literature is used to describe certain tendencies in post-World War II literature. It is both a continuation of the experimentation championed by writers of the modernist period (relying heavily, for example, on fragmentation, paradox, questionable narrators, etc.) and a reaction against Enlightenment ideas implicit in Modernist literature.…
Modernism was a cultural wave that originated in Europe and swept the United States during the early 20th century. Modernism impacted music, art and literature by radically undoing traditional forms, expressing a sense of modern life as a sharp break from the past and its rigid conventions. In literature, the elements of modernism are thematic, formal and stylistic.…