POSTMODERNIM

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POSTMODERNIM

• Giovanni Bredeon 5A

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POSTMODERNISM
Postmodernism is hard to define because it is a
concept that appears in a wide variety of
disciplines of areas of study. It is difficult
to undesrtand when it really begun, but we can
dated it in 1960
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MODERNISM

• There are two modes to define modernism
• The first definition comes from Aesthetic
  movement labeled modernism.
• The second definition comes more from history
  and sociology than from literature of art history

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THE MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERNISM INCLUDE

• An enphasis on subjectivity in writing and how
  seeing rather than on what is perceived.
• A movement away from the apparent objectivity
  provided by omiscient third person narrator
• Poetry seems more documentary and prose seems
  more poetic
• An emphasis on fragmented forms discontinuous
  narratives
• A tendency toward reflexivity or self
  consciousness
• A rejection of elaborate formal aesthetics in
  favour of minimalist designs.
• A rejection of the distinction between high and
  low or popular culture.

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AFTER MODERNISM

• According to Postmodernism there is nothing
  above us, there is no trascendent reality. We are
  finity, limited people in a particular space and
  time.
• The fondamental point is thefore that there is
  no way to have access to objective truth and it
  follows that there is no possibility to really
  know anything.

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CHARACTERISTICS OF POSTMODERNISM

• Reflexivityn
• Self-consciousness
• Simultaneity,
• Destructured, denumanized subject,
• Ambiguity,
• Fragmentation

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POSTMODERNISM SOCIETY

• There are no originals only copies or what Jean
  Badrillard call simulacra
• Is concerned with the organization of knowledge .
• Knowledge is equated with science and is
  contrasted to narrative,science was good
  knowledge and a narrative is bad,primitive
  ,irrational.
• The advent of electronic computer technologies
  has revolutionized the modes of knowledge
  production, distribution in the society.

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CHARACTERISTICS OF POSTMODERNISM IN LITERATURE

• Whereas Modernism places faith in the ideas,
  values, beliefs, culture, and norms of the West,
  Postmodernism rejects Western values and beliefs
  as only a small part of the human experience and
  often rejects such ideas, beliefs, culture, and
  norms.
• 2. Whereas Modernism attempts to reveal profound
  truths of experience and life, Postmodernism is
  suspicious of being "profound" because such ideas
  are based on one particular Western value
  systems.
• 3. Whereas Modernism attempts to find depth and
  interior meaning beneath the surface of objects
  and events, Postmodernism prefers to dwell on the
  exterior image and
• avoids drawing conclusions or suggesting
  underlying meanings associated withthe interior
  of objects and events.

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CHARACTERISTICS OF POSTMODERNISM IN LITERATURE

• 4. Whereas Modernism focused on central themes
  and a united vision in a particular piece of
  literature, Postmodernism sees human experience
  as unstable, internally contradictory, ambiguous,
  inconclusive, indeterminate, unfinished,
  fragmented, discontinuous, "jagged," with no one
  specific reality possible. Therefore, it focuses
  on a vision of a contradictory, fragmented,
  ambiguous, indeterminate, unfinished, "jagged"
  world.
• 5. Whereas Modern authors guide and control the
  readers response to their work, thePostmodern
  writer creates an "open" work in which the reader
  must supply his own connections, work out
  alternative meanings, and provide his own
  (unguide) interpretation.