Modernism

-first
three decades of 20^th century

-Modernism
still believe s in the possibility to find truth/ a single centre

-It
admits the existence of  only high forms of art

-It
doesn't believe in the existence of an absolute meaning, which is
never stable (relationship between Signifier and Signified)

-There
aren't main characters in modernist novels

PostModernism

-Since
the Sixties

-It
not only means after, but it also may mean a development of modernism

-The
most important concept of postmodernism is that it  questions the
idea of authority/ centre/ truth differently from modernism which
seems to believe in the possibility of finding a truth something to
believe in

-It
doesn't believe in the existance of an absolute meaning because
meaning is never stable, always slippery, still to come (diferred)

-It
abolished the difference between low and high art

-Instability
of  identities