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Your Place in History
• Modern
Timeline
TRADITIONAL WESTERN “MODERN” THINKING
Modernism Postmodernism
14th C 1900 2000
You are here
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Postmodernism: Basic Concepts
• Life just is
• Rejection of all master narratives
• All “truths” are contingent cultural constructs
• Skepticism of progress; anti-technology bias
• Sense of fragmentation and de-centered self
• Multiple conflicting identities
• Mass-mediated reality
The End of Master Narratives
POSTMODERNISM
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Postmodern Culture• Create your own values—no right, wrong, sin, etc.• No right or wrong lifestyle• What is truth? Okay to dismiss whatever doesn’t
feel compatible with personal journey
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Postmodernism: Basic Concepts
• All versions of reality are SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS
• Concepts of good and evil
• Metaphors for God
• Language
• The self
• Gender
• EVERYTHING!
The End of Master Narratives
POSTMODERNISM
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Postmodern Literature
• Experimental mixtures of novels, short stories, poems, nonfiction- blending of genres
• Search for identity is a common theme• Mixing of fantasy and reality• Embraces popular culture • deals with political and social issues • development of such concepts as the absurd, the anti-hero, antinovel,
magic realism
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PostModern Literature
• Extreme freedom of form and expression
• Repudiation of boundaries of narration & genre
• Intrusive, self-reflexive author
• Parodies of meta-narratives (a meta-narrative is one that claims to explain various events in history, gives meaning by connecting disperse events and phenomena by appealing to some kind of universal knowledge or schema)
• EX: Bible, Arthurian legend, Quran, categorizing history (Fall of Roman Empire, Renaissance, etc)
• Deliberate violation of standards of sense and decency (which are viewed as methods of social control)
• Integration of everyday experience, pop culture
Play and Parody
POSTMODERNISM