POST MODERNISN

Question 1

According to him postmodern narrative is ahistorical (and hence politicaly dangerous) playing only with pastiched images and aesthetic forms that produce a degraded historicism- ADORNIAN tradition (consumer)

Answer 1

Jameson

Question 2

According to him postmodern fiction remains historical, precisely because it problematizes history through parody, and thus retains its potential for cultural critique- AVANT GARDE (artist as producer)

Answer 2

Hutcheon

Question 3

literary movement that averts from absolute meaning and instead emphasizes play of fragmentation, metafiction, and intertextuality.

This rose to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s as a reaction to modernist literature’s quest for meaning in light of the significant human rights violations of WWII.

Answer 3

Postmodern Literature

Question 4

Origin of postmodern literature.

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Its precursor, predecessor (modernist) emphasized a quest for meaning, suggesting the author as an enlightenment-style creator of
order and mourning the chaotic world.

After the series of human rights violations that occurred during and after WWII (including the atomic bombings of japan, and Japanese internment in the US), writers began to feel as if meaning was an impossible quest, and that the only way to move forward was to embrace meaninglessness fu ly.

Thus: postmodern literature rejected (or reposed on/ built upon) many of the forerunners of modernism (ideologies), including shunning meaning, intensifying and celebrating fragmentation and disorder, and initiating a major shift in literary tradition.

Question 5

Core Ideas of Postmodern

Answer 5

1. Embrace Randomness
2. Playfulness
3. Fragmentation
4. Metafiction
5. Intertextuality

Question 6

rejects the idea of absolute meaning and instead embrace randomness and disorder.
It often employs unreliable narrators to further muddy the waters with extreme subjectivity and prevent readers from finding meaning during the story.

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Embrace randomness

Question 7

while modernist writers mourned the loss of order, postmodern writers revel in it, often using tools like black humor,
wordplay, irony and other techniques of playfulness to dizzy readers and muddle the story.

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Playfulness

Question 8

moving literary works more toward co lage-style forms, temporal distortion, and significant jumps in character and
place

Answer 8

fragmentation

Question 9

is a self-conscious literary style in which the narrator or characters are aware that they are part of a work of fiction.

Answer 9

Metafiction

Question 10

as a form of co lage-style writing, many postmodern authors wrote their work overtly in dialogue with other texts.

The techniques they employed included pastiche (or imitating other authors’ styles) and the combination of high and low culture (writing that explores on subjects that were previously considered inappropriate for literature).

Answer 10

Intertextuality