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JBais - Modernism and Postmodernism - lesson notes of 30.11.11
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Up to 5B - Modernism and Postmodernism
Jessica Bais
LESSON NOTES OF 30.11.11
Even if both Modernism and Post Modernism accept the fragmentation, there is a big difference between them: the first searches the truth, the centre, the meaning of the life and believes in the value of the progress and of technology, while the second believes in the existence of many meanings and many centers, which depend on the relativity of human being and of the points of view, and hasn't faith in the possibilities of the technological progress, even if it develops itself with Globalization contribution, its new communication means and technological tools.
Post Modernism doesn't approve the Realism because it believes in the existence of a truth.
Postmodern novel is very different from novel of ‘800. Firstly, human being beliefs are changed: people hasn't no longer faith in the God, in the progress, in the Science and so they feel lost and search for other elements to satisfy their needs. RESEARCH is a key-word of this period. It's a formal and experimental research, to find new artistic techniques.
Secondly, after the contribution of Einstein's relativity theory, time and space conceptions are changed. Time and space depend on points of view: a Postmodern literary technique is the "shift of point of view"; the narrator tells the story through his characters' eyes and through their flow of consciousness. In the novel, there aren't no longer a linear sequence of events and a chronological order but the chaos, the fragmentation and the disorder dominate.
Post Modernism is not an opposition to Modernism: they go together and they look the reality in different terms and ways.
Other important Postmodern novel features are the reduction of the plot, the use of the narration in third person, who explores characters' mind, and the reproduction of the flow of consciousness in literary terms ( see Laurence Stern's novel Tristram Shandy).
LESSON NOTES OF 30.11.11
Even if both Modernism and Post Modernism accept the fragmentation, there is a big difference between them: the first searches the truth, the centre, the meaning of the life and believes in the value of the progress and of technology, while the second believes in the existence of many meanings and many centers, which depend on the relativity of human being and of the points of view, and hasn't faith in the possibilities of the technological progress, even if it develops itself with Globalization contribution, its new communication means and technological tools.
Post Modernism doesn't approve the Realism because it believes in the existence of a truth.
Postmodern novel is very different from novel of ‘800. Firstly, human being beliefs are changed: people hasn't no longer faith in the God, in the progress, in the Science and so they feel lost and search for other elements to satisfy their needs. RESEARCH is a key-word of this period. It's a formal and experimental research, to find new artistic techniques.
Secondly, after the contribution of Einstein's relativity theory, time and space conceptions are changed. Time and space depend on points of view: a Postmodern literary technique is the "shift of point of view"; the narrator tells the story through his characters' eyes and through their flow of consciousness. In the novel, there aren't no longer a linear sequence of events and a chronological order but the chaos, the fragmentation and the disorder dominate.
Post Modernism is not an opposition to Modernism: they go together and they look the reality in different terms and ways.
Other important Postmodern novel features are the reduction of the plot, the use of the narration in third person, who explores characters' mind, and the reproduction of the flow of consciousness in literary terms ( see Laurence Stern's novel Tristram Shandy).