postmodernism Flashcards
modrinsim vs postmodernism
modersim: loss of trust, unconcious find, fine art=low culute
postmoderism; life is meaningless, anything can be ar, art is not immortal, no belief in deison between high and low culture, nothing special
elements of post.
many culutres, techology present, mixing of historical styles (kindred has scifi and history),
writing/lit
novelist/short stories
increase in nonfiction
mixing ficition and nonfiction
poetry = esoteric
ethnic writers join WEDM
esoteric
hard to understand
poetry has no meaning
WEDM
white europoean dead men
great railwa bazaar
story of adventions
travel writer
paul theroux
the names
importance of naming kids and basing it on their future
native american
n scott momaday
in cold blood
interviewed murderes
mindest of murderes
made fictionalized characters
journalisht and novelist
truman capote
ragtime
harlem renacance in NY
real-life characters and fake
e.l. doctorow
the walking poem
theodore roethke
howl and other poems
part of the beat movement
MOST FAMOUS
allenginsburg
beat movement
free love and drugs
“north and south”
elizabeth bishop
“garbage”
ar ammons
ethnic writers
machine hong kingston
amy tan
sanda cisneros
julia alvarez
