Sunday, 17 April 2011

Modernism And Postmodernism



Modernism And Postmodernism 



Cultural and historical great events of the modern era are things such as 

World War I (1914-1918) and World War II (1939-1945)
changes in industry and technology as compared to the 19th century.                  
The rise in power and influence of international corporations 
cultural exchanges, transportation, communication,
Modernism places hope in the ideas, values, beliefs, culture, and norms of the West.
The Postmodernism rejects Western values and beliefs,culture,and norms. Modernism attempts to reveal profound truths of experience and life, Postmodernism is suspicious of being "profound" because such ideas are based on one particular Western value system Modernism attempts to find depth and interior meaning the surface of objects and events.Modernism is focused on central themes.Postmodernism sees human experience as unstable, internally contradictory, ambiguous, inconclusive, indeterminate, unfinished, fragmented, discontinuous. 

Characteristics of Modernism in Literature
Images and symbols as typical and frequent literary techniques 
language which is used in a very self-conscious wayand language as a technique for crafting the piece of literature.
The intention of some of the writers is to change the way readers see the world and to change the understanding of what language is and what it does .
"Postmodern" is the term used to suggest contemporary literature of the last half of the 20th century. 



http://vc.ws.edu/engl2265/unit4/Modernism/all.htm
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/modernism/modpostmod.html
http://english.illinoisstate.edu/strickland/495/modpomo.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism

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