Postmodernism Flashcards
1
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Lyotard
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Rejection of ‘metanarratives’
2
Q
Marshall
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Postmodernism is awareness of ‘being within’
3
Q
Said
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Calls for ‘critical consciousness’ [awareness of authorial context]
4
Q
Morey
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Problem with postmodernism is it relies on the reader as an ‘idealised construct’
5
Q
Phelan - unreliable narration
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Distinction between under-reporting and mis-reporting in unreliable narration
6
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R.M George - modernist affliction
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‘an absent centre, resonant silence at its core’
