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5A. Suggestions for the study of Postmodernism. Study steps and related documents.
How to study POSTMODERNISM 
The present area provides suggestions on the linked documents to study and the order in which to study them.
Links are listed in the order suggested for a better understanding of the content to be learned.
A. STUDYING POSTMODERNISM
1. Postmodernism.
(The teacher's notes provide a simple initial introduction to Modernism but they do not at all provide a complete background to the study; they rather simply introduce reflection.)
2. The most important document about Postmodernism -> Highly Recommended
It provides the most complete explanation of information and concepts that help organize a coherent presentation of Postmodernism.
3. Mapping Modernism / Postmodernism
A document providing a map of the binary oppositions between "modernisms" and "postmodernisms.". remember there is a constant interaction between Modernism and Postmodernism, the latter being something coming after and at the same time going beyond Modernism
TEXTS
Extract 1 from David Lodege's Nice Work. Industrialization, the novel, character, intertextuality, the self and identity. Language, art as construction and production.
Extract 2 from David Lodege's Nice Work. Semiotics and interpretation, metaphor and metonymy, advertising interpretation, the signifier and the signified, Freudean anlysis and texts interpretation.
The link provides the opportunity to go deeper into reflection on Postmodernism linking it to all areas of study and in particular with Science, Physics and the Philosophy of Science
At the same time it provides a useful synthesis of some important points of reflection.
How to study MODERNISM
B. STUDYING MODERNISM
MODERNISM and Postmodernism
1. An Introduction To Modernism & Postmodernism.
(The notes provide the basic knowledge to understand the two different movements)
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