POST-MODERNISM

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POST-MODERNISM
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WHAT,WHERE,WHEN

• Sensitized by the insights of some of the classic
  thinkers, ranging from Marx, to Weber, to
  Durkheim, Freud, and the critical thought of the
  Frankfurt School, postmodernist thought emerged
  in Europe with a new intensity in the late 1980s
  and early 1990s.
• Postmodernists are fundamentally opposed to
  modernist thought.

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THEMES

• reject boundaries between high and low forms of
  art
• reject rigid genre distinctions
• emphasize parody, bricolage, irony and
  playfulness
• favor reflexivity and self-consciousness,
  fragmentation and discontinuity,ambiguity,
  simultaneity
• evidence on the destructured, decentered,
  dehumanized subject.

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POSTMODERNISM VS MODERNISM
MODERNISM POSTMODERNISM
Socio economic production Reproduction
Socio economic Goods Services
Socio economic Monopoly capital Multinational capital
poetics emotions Random intensities
poetics plot Labyrinth
poetics autonomy intertextuality
Miscellaneous figurations Representation Simulation
Miscellaneous figurations Physiology Biotechnology
Miscellaneous figurations organism cyborg
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WHO

• JOHN MAXWELL COETZEE
• Winner of the Nobel Prize for literacture in
  2003, he is consider the most important writer of
  South Africa.
• Bore in 1940 in Città del Capo, he gratuated in
  maths and language. In 60s he worked in London as
  computer programmer for IBM.
• Later he graduates in literary in Texas Universty
  and he teached english language and literacture
  in Buffalo University.
• Now hes working for english department in
  Adelaide University.

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• FOE
• by J. M. Coetzee
• Edit in 1986, this novel is an example of
  re-writing of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
• It uses allegorical techniques and is considered
  by many critics as the archetypal post-modern
  novel, examining the creative process of
  storytelling, narrative, language, as well as
  issues of gender, race and colonialism.

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BIOGRAPHY

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maxwell_Coetzee
• http//www.wsu.edu8080/amerstu/573/pomochart.htm
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• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foe_28novel29
• http//www.marilenabeltramini.it
• http//www.vialattea.net/odifreddi/coetzee/coetzee
  .html
• http//www.colorado.edu/English/courses/ENGL2012Kl
  ages/pomo.html