Postmodernism

• It is a cultural movement developed after Modernism
• Since the Sixties
• It questions the idea of authority, truth and the centre
• It doesn't believe in the existence of an absolute meaning ( meaning is never stable, always slippery)
• Meaning depends on situations
• It abolished the difference between low and high art
• It is connected to the relationship between signifier and signified
• The positions of the reader is the privileged one
• It abolishes the figure of the author, because now postmodern novels use intertextuality ( nothing is new)
• It underlines the concept of commune ( no longer the concept of unique)
• It uses the contemporary language
• Postmodern texts use myths, legends
• It uses symbolism or allegory

Postmodernism is a cultural movement developed after Modernism. The word Postmodernism to be better understood it may be divided into three parts: Post - Modern - ism. The prefix "Post" implies after the Modernism, but it also may mean something going beyond. The suffix -ism generally implies something negative, because what is new is not welcome, is not good accepted by people because of their habits.
Post modernism developes in the Sixties and it still going on today. The main concept of Postmodernism is that it questions the idea of authority, truth and the centre, differently from Modernism which seemes to believe in the possibility of finding a truth, something to believe in, it is still looking for a centre, for a point of reference.

In addition Postmodernism doesn't believe in the existence of an absolute meaning, because meaning is never stable, is always slippery, and also because meaning may change according to situations.
Postmodernism abolishes the difference between low and high art, while Modernism puts the question on art, in fact modern art is recognized by abstract art, which communicates spiritual and emotional values through forms, colours and lines, therefore something defined, something stable.
Besides Postmodernism abolishes the figure of the author, because Postmodern novels use myths, legends, symbolism or allegory taken by other texts, so nothing is new because of the use of intertextuality, what is new it is the innovation about the use of narrative techniques.Otherwise Modernism is associated with ideal visions of human life and society and a belief in progress.

• it develops in the first decades of the 20th Century
• it is still looking for a centre, for a point of reference
• it still believes in the possibility of finding a truth, something to believe in
• it searches for an explanation of mankind's place in a world in which religion, social stability and ethics have begun to lose their place.
• It reflects the complexity of life and of human relationships
• it puts the question and research on art at the centre
• it is associated with ideal visions of human life and society and a belief in progress
• it expresses the dynamism of the modern world
• modern art is recognized by abstract art, which communicates spiritual and emotional values through forms, colours, and lines.