MODERNISM

It is a movementthat develpoed during the first three decades of the twentieth century.

The movement regarded  visual arts, music, literature and drama. It rejected  old Victorian standards. In"high modernism" the major figures of modernist  literature were figures like V. Woolf, J. Joyce, T.S. Eliot, E. Pound, Stevens, M Proust, Mallarme, Kafka and Ralke.

Modernism presents a  fragmented view of human subjectivity and history but the fragmentation is viewed  as something  tragic or something that is  mourned  as a loss.

POSTMODERNISM

 Postmodernism is a complicated umbrella term or a group of ideas . Postmodernism develops in the 1980s. It is very difficult to define because it is a concept  including a lot of disciplines like arts, architecture, music, film, literature, sociology, communications and others.

It is hard to locate but we can say that  high modernism is equivalent to the  post-modern period.

Postmodernism combined everyday aspects of popular culture with high art .

It rejects boundaries between high and low art as well as  rigid genre distinction, emphasises pastiche, parody, bricolage, irony and playfulness. The movement  exalts reflection and self-consciousness, it dehumanizes the subject , it is in favour of the fragmentation and discontinuity, ambiguity and so on.