This document provides an overview of postmodernism and related concepts. It defines postmodernity as a historical period beginning in the 1960s, and postmodernism as both a style in culture and thought. Postmodernism emerged from modernism and is characterized by deconstructing concepts like truth, language, history and reality. A key aspect is metafiction, which draws attention to itself as an artifact and examines the relationship between fiction and reality. Historiographic metafiction further blurs the lines between fiction and history.
Hello people! This handout introduces us to the world of England literature in the 20th century. Included also in the handout is a sample literary piece which is The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
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One of the most influential literary critical movements of the 20th century. Speaking very generally, Russian Formalism as a critical movement was interested in identifying the specific quality of language use that separated the literary text from the non-literary text. Their approach was scientific inasmuch as they thought it was possible to establish what it is precisely that distinguishes ordinary usages of language from the poetic. Unlike the later post-structuralists, the Russian Formalists treated poetry as an autonomous form of discourse that was distinct from all other forms of discourse. They referred to this difference in qualitative terms as literaturnost (literariness) and sought to quantify (i.e. formalize) it by means of their theory of ostranenie (estrangement), which simply put is the process of making the already familiar seem unfamiliar or strange, thereby awakening in us a heightened state of perception.
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Countless volumes have been written trying to explain the mystery of three persons in one true God, leaving us to resort to metaphors such as the three-leaf clover to try to comprehend the Divinity. Many of us grew up with the quintessential pyramidal Trinity structure of God at the top and Son and Spirit in opposite corners. But what if we looked at this âmysteryâ from a different perspective? What if we shifted our language of God as a being towards the concept of God as love? What if we focused more on the relationship within the Trinity versus the persons of the Trinity? What if stopped looking at God as a nounâŠand instead considered God as a verb? Check it outâŠ
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A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 â 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
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Unit III Postmodernism
1. Unit III: THE POSTMODERN AGE Literature in English II Prof. Julia I. MartĂnez
2. MODERNITY Epochal term (refers to a historical period) From the Renaissance (reason)/ Enlightenment (18th c.) till today
3. MODERN AGE Historical age From the end of the 15th c. (discovery of America) to 1789 (the French Revolution). Then, the Contemporary Age begins
4. MODERNISM One of the cultural manifestations of Modernity. A category that means change / rupture / beginning / a moment of crisis It began in 1922 with Eliotâs âThe Wastelandâ and Joyceâs âUlysses,â and finished (?) around 1960
5. MateiCalinescu: The Five Faces of Modernity (1987) Postmodernism is one other face of the extraordinary phenomenon that came to be known as modernism It is another expression of the modernist ethos since there are âtwo conflicting and interdependent modernities -one socially progressive, rationalistic, competitive, technological; the other culturally critical and self-critical, bent on demystifying the basic values of the first...â (p. 265).
6. POSTMODERNISM A period in Western history beginning in the 1960s (Postmodernity) A style in culture (Postmodernism) A style of thought / an intellectual atmosphere (Postmodern theory)
7. Ihab Hassan & Brian McHale: POST â MODERN â ISM movement, poetics modernism Anti: reaction against Modernism After: ï logical consequence of modernism ï temporal posteriority successor of Modernism
8. Brian McHale (1987): In order to differentiate modernist from postmodernist fiction, we should talk about the dominant of each taken from Jackobson (the focusing component or the principle of sistematicity)
10. Socio-cultural context of Postmodernism End of the 1960s Counter culture: Hippie and feminist movements Strikes (studentsâ strikes in particular)
11. Postmodern Theory (Steven Best) Origin: France, 1960s / 1970s Rapid modernisation process (1960s) changes in lifestyle (anxiety Post-structuralist philosophers (1970s): Derrida, Kristeva, Foucault, Lancan instability of meaning Rupture with traditions Change in thought strikes (1960s)
12. Leslie Fiedler âThe End of the Novelâ (1967) Writers turned to experimental writing because they didnât know what to write about
13. John Barth âThe Literature of Exhaustionâ (1967) âThe Literature of Replenishmentâ (1980) He reacted against Fiedler In his view, it is true that some forms are exhausted, but this âexperimentationâ may lead to a new form. If there are no more topics to write about, we should use the past to recreate new fiction. Literature is inexhaustible
14. Effects: Writers abandoned classical fiction Writers turned to experimental fiction Reality canât be apprehended If we canât tell what reality is, how can we represent reality? By constructing new realities Phenomenology (Husserl)
15. Main concerns of Postmodernism Deconstruction of: Truth Language History Reality Meaning Identity Power Space
18. Metafiction - Definition A tendency within fiction Patricia Waugh (1984): âFictional writing that systematically / self-consciously draws attention to its status as an artifactâ (p. 2) It poses questions about the relationship between fact and fiction (existential questioning) (p. 2) Examines the fundamental structures of narrative fiction (experimental writing)
19. Metafiction - Themes Relationship / boundaries / juxtaposition of fact and reality and fiction and fantasy Reality as a linguistic and discursive construct Role of the person who writes fiction (fiction maker); critical reflections about writing fiction
20. Metafiction - Devices Critical discussions of the story within story Visible inventing narrator (obtrusive narrator) Explicit dramatisation of the reader Construction / deconstruction of worlds Intertextuality Narrative self-erasure
21. Metafiction - Devices Multiple endings Chinese-box structures Lexical exhibitionism, catalogues Heteroglossia (polyphony of voices) Breakdown of spatial and temporal organisation of the narrative (playful) Parody Historical revisionism Pastiche
22. HistoriographicMetafiction Linda Hutcheon (1988): âIn the 19th century (âŠ) literature and history were considered branches of the same tree of learning. (âŠ) Then came the separation that resulted in the distinct disciplines of literary and historical studies today. (âŠ) However, it is this very separation of the literary and the historical that is now being challenged in postmodern theory and artâ (p. 105)
23. HistoriographicMetafiction Hutcheon: âthey are both identified as linguistic constructs, highly conventionalized in their narrative forms, and not at all transparent either in terms of language or structure; and they appear to be equally intertextual, deploying the texts of the past within their own complex textualityâ (p. 105)
24. HistoriographicMetafiction Hutcheon: âthis kind of novel asks us to recall that history and fiction are themselves historical terms and that their definitions and interrelations are historically determined and vary with timeâ (105) âHistoriographic metafiction suggests that truth and falsity may indeed not be the right terms in which to discuss fictionâ (109)
25. HistoriographicMetafiction Hutcheon: âPostmodern fiction suggests that to re-write or to re-present the past in fiction and in history is, in both cases, to open it up to the present, to prevent it from being conclusive and teleologicalâ (p. 110) Historiographic metafictions âboth install and then blur the line between fiction and historyâ (p. 113)
26. HistoriographicMetafiction Hutcheon: âPostmodern novels raise a number of specific issues regarding the interaction of historiography and fiction that deserve more detailed study: issues surrounding the nature of identity and subjectivity; the question of reference and representation; the intertextual nature of the past; and the ideological implications of writing about historyâ (p. 117)