Hiteshbhai C. Parmar

Roll No. 11 Semester – M.A. Sem. 2

Year 2013 - 14

Topic:- PostmodernismSubmitted to: Dr. Dilip Barad

Smt. S.B. Gardi Department of English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji

Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar.

“Postmodernism” is a term usually applied to the period in literature, which was first used in the 1960s by literary critics such as Ahab Hassan and Leslie Fielder. They both have started and coined this term after the Second World War (1939 to 1945). Earlier this term was known as the cultural and aesthetic approach, but later on this word or this term was invented.

Postmodernism

Postmodernism

• The term ‘Postmodernism’ is often applied to the literature and art after World War 2 (1939-1945).

• It’s a reaction against the philosophical assumptions, values, and intellectual worldview of the modern period of western history.

• Postmodernism questions everything rationalist European philosophy held to be true.

• Postmodernism refer to a group of critics who inspired often by the postmodern culture in which they live

Postmodernism

• After World war 2 • Reaction towards the new status of the Word. • Reaction against realism & modernism.• “High art”, “High Culture” “Everyday Life”.• Language as a reflection of reality.• Postmodernism is Anti art. • Postmodernism removes distinction Between

High– Law, Class – Mass.

Postmodernism• Many practitioners were there of postmodernism such as:

Practitioners

Walter Benjamin

Martin Heidegger

Bertolt Bretch

Jorge Luis Borges

Susan Sintag

Postmodernism Aspect - Jean Baudrillard

Any sign is empty

Virtual Word

Status and Taboos

Hyperreal between The private and public.

Art and Literature

Music

Building Literature

Cinema

Conclusion

• New literature, art, and culture after world war 2 created, Analyzes of those is known as Postmodernism. It is opposed modernism.