Postmodernism Flashcards
1
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Jean-François Lyotard
A
“incredulity toward meta-narratives”
[postmodernism] “refines our sensitivity to differences and reinforces our ability to tolerate the immeasurable”
2
Q
Jean Baudrillard
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“the simulacrum is never what hides the truth - it is the truth that hides the fact that there is none”
3
Q
Linda Hutcheon
A
“contradictions are certainly manifest in the important postmodern concept of ‘the presence of the past’”
“critical revisiting, an ironic dialogue with the past of both art and society”
“our culture is not really the homogenous monolith (male, white, Western) that we might have assumed”
4
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John Barth
A
‘The Literature of Exhaustion’
- metafiction is “self-conscious fiction”
- looks to Borges who used the exhaustion of literature as a subject matter for generating new fiction
