This document discusses postmodernism from three approaches: historical, theoretical, and stylistic. Historically, postmodernism reacted against modernism and its ideas of progress, objectivity, and certainty. Theoretically, key theorists like Lyotard, Baudrillard, and Jameson analyzed postmodernism's rejection of grand narratives, hyperreality, and lack of depth. Stylistically, postmodern texts are characterized by concepts like generic blurring, intertextuality, playfulness, and uncertainty. To determine if a text is postmodern, the document proposes combining all three approaches, focusing on stylistic elements informed by historical and theoretical perspectives.

1. Lesson Objective:  to understand the 3 approaches to postmodernism  to understand the difference between modernism and postmodernism  to know the basic theories of the postmodern

3. Postmodernism is a notoriously difficult concept to define. There are 3 approaches:  Historical  Stylistic  Theoretical

6. Think…architecture The simplification of form and the elimination of ornament

8. Nuclear family

9. So is that’s modernism, what is postmodernism? Think…

10. architecture… playing with the idea of conventions of buildings – making us think about how it is constructed

12. Alternative models in society e.g. family

22. From what you have learnt today, which texts do you think could be described as ‘postmodern’?