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MODERNISM VS POST MODERNISM - Coggle Diagram
MODERNISM VS POST MODERNISM
Postmodernism (Mid 20th C )
Features
It was against all the events of Modernism
Reaction to Enlightment
Post Modernism challenged Modernism
Key elements
Relativism
not absolute truth
Skepticism
Doubting knowledge (universal doubts)
writing style
irony
Black humor fiction
Social criticism
metafiction
paranoia
intertextuality
Describe certain characteristics of post World War II
playfulness
Pastiche
Representatives
Dylan Thomas
Poetry
Writing style: sensual imagery and complex poetic technique contrasted favorable with the more common, socially oriented verse of his contemporaries.
Kingsley Amis
Main Characteristics
Rejection of Individual Identity.
People exist as members of a group,
REJECTS: improvement
Impossible to achieve knowledge
Started after WW2
Against enlightment
Modernism (Late19thC-Early20th C)
Features
Challenge Romanticism
Enlightment thinking
Reject the idea of Realism
Logical and rational thinking
writing style
Stream of Conciousness
Absurdity
inner monologue
point of view
Experimentation
Representatives
James Jyoce
Techniques
Full of illusion
Experimental style
Portraits the middle social class
Descriptive and imaginative
A lot of joy
Virginia Woolf
stream of consciousness
MAIN characteristics
LOGIC/RATIONAL
ONLY w/objective knowledge
solve problems
SEEK FOR A UNIVERSAL TRUTH
INDIVIDUALISM
Reflected through the use of stream of consciousness
Late 19th century