WARS' AFTERMATHES

• Reconstruction of art and literarture        - Materialism's revision 

-Attack bourgeois values

-Weapon to reform society

• Cultural and literary reaction                    - Existentialism : a philosophy of pacification

              that influenced English theatre

           -Neorealism

              that influenced British theatre

• Formers' independence
• Mass protest
• Modernism reappeared 
• Postmodernism develops

POSTMODERNISM

•·         It still alives

•·         It developed after the two World Wars

•·         It is a philosophy and also a  cultural movement

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          CHARACTERISTICS :

• It rejects or revises the principles of Modernism

• It privileges variety  and diversity
• It influenced arts, cinema,  photography, painting and literature
• It emphasizes the developmental of science
• It is based on quantum theory and chaos theory
• It had a global perspective on culture
• It doesn't believe in one single truth
• It operates in a deconstruction way
• The culture embodies both high culture and low culture
• Pastiche and parody developed  in Postmodernism