Learning Paths » 5A Interacting
1. The word Postmodernism well displays the movement cultural features and contradictions: first of all it implies a relationship with Modernism since at the same time it comes diachronically after but also goes beyond some of it tenets. It is all happened with something new, at the beginning it is considered with suspect.
2. Modernism and Postmodernism why constantly having a silent dialogue are totally different as far as the way they consider through because why Modernists still believe in the possibility to find a meaning with which could give relevance and they follow personal quests in this direction. Postmodernists do not even
think to look for truth as a single unique point of reference because they don’t believe in a one.
3. Intertextuality is a cultural and narrative technique which often displays reference to other texts to other way. Rising from in an influence, structural framework and quotation.
4. The connection between the rise of novel and the birth of industrialization is clearly explained in Robyn’s lesson, where she finds a justification in the Protestant ethic as the stringboard for the investment of once now. If one the one head capitalists invests own money in industrial projects the novelist invests his or her imagination to create the customers only want than reading the novel.
5. Robyn is one of the protagonists of David Lodge Nice Work a typical example of the semiotic materialism underline Postmaterialism.
Postmodernism cannot distinguish between low and high art because it rejects the idea of meaning as a reference point and, as result if there is no a reference meaning, there cannot be having a definitive truth or authority which can establish what is high and low art all the same discourse formation that can coexist.
6. Postmodernism does not believe in concept of author because it poses the idea that since there is not a single identity conside of as an unique final soul in total control in his or her production, communication and relationship, follows that there can’t be a single author from which a text can totally original.
7. Readers in Postmodernism comes to front frame to the same reason that explains the lack of a single order. If there is a single author, meaning, comprension and interpretation shift from the author to they who create meaning and possible interpretation from the process of reading that is to try to find personal meaning out the discourses formation that comes across the text the read.
8. Using the Bible as a structuring principle of the text Oranges Are not the Only Fruit is a revolutionary attitude race to put into question the text of the Bible seems a dogmatic point of reference. The Bible, the very essent book of western cultural is a game in a narrative framework to create a form of entraitenement like novel. In addition, it provides the intelligent readers there is a sense of direction to find a point displaying one of the most traditional formals of the western novel the building romance. Indeed the name of the chapters in the novel are symbolic and metaphoric representation of different steps and stages in the protagonist’s life. In short religion, the untouchable reference and truth for excellence of western cultural is continually and continuously question that’s demonstrating that Postmodernism doesn’t believe in history, meaning dogmas, authors or whatever and they come to be consider untouchable roles that are expected to tell people what to do or not.
9. Inserted parallel stories are meant to provide the reader a parallel layer where symbolically and metaphorically the narrator created a silent dialogue between story line, plot and the insert story of the novel. It follows that the choice wants to underline the apparent difference between Realism (apparently telling about facts, histories and events) and fiction. Fiction actually means something invented. Story lines and inserted stories are just the way for the narrator to provide the readers with the occasions for reflection and researching and about one likes.
10. The adoptions of a first person narrator for the most part of the novel is another game like choice with which the writer Jeanette Winterson herself play the readers in that does not easily distinguish between Jeanette the concrete live writer and Jeanette the protagonist of the novel. That is making fun of all those (critics include) that still are unable to understand that fiction is not concrete reality, That is making fun of all those (critics include) that still are unable to understand that fiction is not concrete reality, fiction is an art craft, something made up and despite of this most of the times considered of as more real than reality, fiction is an art craft, something made up and despite of this most of the times considered of as more real than reality itself, in a view world apparence.