11. Literaure - Surrealism, Avant garde,
make it new, expressionism, stream
of consciousness, un conscious -
"The horror, the horror!", Gertrude
Stein – lost generation – city – jazz
age – imagism – ezra pound – blast –
free verse - Vorticist – imagism.
12. Characteristics :
Breaking rules – melting pot – revolution –
break tradition – make it new -
Breaking boundaries border – loss of faith
in govt and God , fragment – traditional
forms reworking , individual, intertextuality –
technical life . reject tradition, mourning for
fragment.
13. Modernist Writers
T.S Eliot – waste land – Alfred
pruf rock, hollow man –
James joice – Ulysses ,
Finnegan's wake multi-lingual
allusions
Virginia woolf -Mrs.Dalloway
"A Room of One's Own"
14. FRANZ KAFKA
The Metamorphosis
Surrealistic interior narrative,
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
"The Second Coming"
Marshal broust
Rememberance of thinngs past
WILLIAM FAULKNER
As I lay dying – 15 point of view same story
Sound and fury
18. World War II
“Modernity – an unfinished
Project” (1980) – Habermas
“The post modern Condition” –
Lyotard (1979) – Grand narratives
Jean Baudrillard – “Simulacra”
19. Fredric Jameson – Late
Capitalism
“ Cultural Logic of Late
Capitalism”
21. KURT VONNEGUT - Slaughterhouse-Five
JORGE LUIS BORGES - shorter format. Short story
writer. "The Library of Babel"
"death of postmodernism," Raymond Federman argued
that postmodernism had died with Beckett in 1989.
Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Zadie Smith, and Salman
Rushdie.
Don DeLillo's White Noise
Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
Waiting for Godot – Beckett
Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow
