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GGrimaldi - . 5A - Modernism and postmodernism - . EXPECTED RESULTS
by GGrimaldi - (2011-12-19)
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->1.  1)The word Postmodernism well displays the movement authoral features : first of all it implies a relationship with Modernism since at the same time it comes chronologically after but also goes beyond some of its tenets. As it always happen with something new, as the beginning it is considered with suspect.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->2.    2)Modernism and Postmodernism while constantly having a silent dialogue are totally different as far as the way they considered true/truth, because while modernists still believed in the possibility to find a meaning which could give relevance to this existence and they followed 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 there is one.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->3.   3)Intertextuality is a cultural and narrative technique which displays references to other texts in different ways ranging from ………. Influence, structure forms and or quotations.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->4.   4)The connection between the rise of the novel and the born of Industrialization is clearly explained in Robyn’s lesson, where she ……….. a justification in the protestant ethic as the springboard for the investiment of ones ……………. If capitalists invested their money in industrial product, the novelist invests his/her imagination to create a product the costumer only knows he/she wants when reading the novel. Robyn is one of the protagonist of David Lodge Nice Work a typical example of the semiotical materialism underling Postmodernism.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->5.    5)Postmodernism cannot distinguish between high and low art because it rejects the idea of meaning as reference point and as result there is no reference meaning, there cannot be only definitive truth or authority which can establish what is high and low art.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->6.    6)Postmodernism does not believe in the concept of author because it poses the idea that since there is not a single identity considered of as a unique , final soul in toto control of his/her production, communication and relationship it follows that there cannot be a single order from which a text can totally originally and therefore there is only production as a tissue of intertextual references.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->7.    7)Readers in Postmodernism …………….. from the same reason that explains the lack of the single order. If there is no author, meaning, comprehension and interpretation shift from the author to they who create possible meanings and interpretations from the process of reading that is from try to find personal meanings out of the discurs formation they can across in the text they read.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->8.    8)Using the Bible as a structuring principle of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit is a revolutionary attitude rationally considered of to put into question the text of the Bible seem a dogmatic point of reference. The Bible, the very essence of western culture, is used in a game like narrative framework to create a form of entertainment like the novel. In addition it provides the intelligent reader a sense of direction to follow the project displaying one of the most traditional formats of the western novel. Indeed the name of chapter in the novel are symbols and metaphorical representation of different steps and stages of growth in the protagonist’s life. In short religion the untouchable reference of truth for excellence of all western culture is continually questioned ……. demonstrated that Postmodernism does not believe in history, meaning, dogmas others or whatever when they can be considered untouchable gurus that are expected to tell people what to do and what not.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->9.    9)Inserting parallels stories are ……. to provide the reader a parallel layer where symbolically and ………… metaphorically the narrator creates a ……………… between storyline, plot and the inserted story of the novel. It follows that the choice that because a structural choice wants to underline the apparent differences between real reason (apparently telling about facts, histories and events) and fiction. Fiction actually means something invented. Storyline and inserted stories are just the way for the narrator to provide the reader with occasions for reflecting and researching about ones life.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->1010)The adoption of 1st person narrator for…… of the novel is another game like choice with which the writer Jeanette Winterson plays with the reader in ……….. he/she does not easly distinguish between Jeanette the concrete living writer and Jeanette the protagonist of the novel does …………. of all those (critics) that still are unable to understand fiction is not concrete reality, fiction is an ….. something made art and ….. of this …. Most of the times considered of as more real then reality itself. In a few words hypereal.