Canadian literature Flashcards
Define Postmodernism
The time period following upon modernism since 1950s,
a host of intellectual and artistic movements that marks a departure from modernism.
Principles of Post-modernism
- Disrupts grand narratives to explain the world.
- Sceptical towards ideas of knowledge, objectivity, truth, authenticity, rationality and progress.
- Challenges artistic and social conventions.
- Views truths as products of context spesific social discourses and interpretations.
Elements of post-modernistic writing (8)
- Fragmentation
- pastiche
- intertextuality
- metafiction
- Temporal distortion
- multiple narration
- magical realism
- irony, playfullness, black humour
what is fragmentation?
playful uses of ruptures and inchoherence
what is pastiche?
pasting elements of different art forms, genres, styles or reference to popuar culture
what is intertextuality?
refrences other texts in a text
What is metafiction
- writing about writing
- Self-reflexive
- a form of fiction that emphasizes its own narrative structure in a way that inherently reminds the audience that they are reading or viewing a fictional work.
What is temporal distortion
non-linear timelines and narrative teqniqes in a story
what is multiple narration
several narrators tell a story
what is magcical realism
intergration of impossible or unrealistic elements into otherwise realistic story
what is irony, playfullness, black humour
- irony- he use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning
- black humor- humor marked by the use of usually morbid, ironic, grotesquely comic episodes
- playfullness- doing funny, humours things.
what does historiograpic mean?
The writing of history based on critical sources
who wrote “The Wilds of Morris Township?”
Alice Munro
who wrote “What, were and why is here?
Margareth Atwood
Who wrote “The lure of the labrador wild”
Dillon Wallace
