3. . Modernity
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Six Tents of Modernism
A rejection of Traditional themes and subjects matter.
A focus on alienation suffered by an individual rather than
heroes who stood for the values of society.
3. Theme of impermanence and change.
4. The use of understatement and irony to reveal
important emotions and ideas.
5. Use of symbols and images that suggest meaning rather
than statements that explain meaning.
6. Use of stream of consciousness technique to show what
is going on both inside and outside the characters.
4. “Post modernism as the period of second
revolution in the twentieth century. Which
means it is the period where there is
immense process of the destruction of
meaning which is equal to the earlier
destruction of appearances. He also says
that in this period of post modernism
whoever lives by meaning also dies by
meaning.”
~Baudrill
ard
6. So POSTMODERNISM
is a condition where...
1. Am I better than you? Who cares?
2. Everything is Art.
3. Equality
4. Political Correctness
5. Belief in Internationalism
6. Rationalisation
7. Truth is Relative
8. Each religion is legitimate
9. Facts and Criticism
7. 7
Jacques Derrida
Destruction is Good
"If anything is destroyed in a deconstructive reading, it is not the text, but the claim to
unequivocal domination of one mode of signifying over another. A deconstructive reading is a
reading which analyses the specificity of a text's critical difference from itself."
Fuzzy Reality
Some literature that recognizes the highly mediated nature of our experience, and are playful,
ironic, explicitly intertextual and deconstruct themselves may be closer to reality.
Sign, Signifier and Signified
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