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Modernism vs Postmodernism, In Postmodernism - Coggle Diagram
Modernism vs Postmodernism
Skepticism
Attitude of doubt or a disposition to incredulity either in general or toward a particular object
Highly skeptical of explanations which claim to be valid for all groups
It focuses on the relative truths of each person according to sexual orientation, race, gender, and other features of human identity.
Differences
Influence
Modernism
World War I
Based on Enlightment
Postmodernism
World war 2
Against Enlightment
Beginning
Modernism
Late 19th C - Early 20th C
Postmodernism
Mid 20th C
Writing Style
Modernism
Broke earlier styles
Interior monologue
absurdity
Focus on the writer
Postmodernism
Playfulness
Black humor
Social criticism
Paranoia
Focus on the reader
Pastiche
Metafiction
Context
Modernism
Hope
Technological advances
Enlightment Era
The truth
Postmodernism
Rejects ideas of progress
Hopeless
Post World war II
Social context
Modernism
Liberal capitalism
Individualism
Autonomy
Integration
Women were opressed by the patriarchy
Postmodernism
Socialism
Social determination
Collectivism
Group conflict
Gender roles are culturally relative in all cultures and contexts
Similarities
Writers broke free of usual forms and techniques
Inspiration from social and political tragic events
Rejected boundaries between hig and low form of art
Rejected rigid genre distinctions
Employment of fragmentation in narrative and character construction
Both are usually told from an objective or omniscient point of view
Explore the external reality to examine the inner states of consciousness of the characters
In Postmodernism