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Postmodernism

Postmodernism. What is Postmodernism?. Postmodernism is a cultural artistic movement developed after modernism as a reaction to it. Largely influenced by the disillusionment caused by the Second World War, Postmodernism emphasizes modernist themes and expand them to all social ranks.

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Postmodernism

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  1. Postmodernism

  2. What is Postmodernism? • Postmodernism is a cultural artistic movement developed after modernism as a reaction to it. • Largely influenced by the disillusionment caused by the Second World War, Postmodernism emphasizes modernist themes and expand them to all social ranks

  3. Influences • Modernism • The Second World War • Karl Barth • Martin Heidegger • Ludwig Wittgenstein • Michel Foucault • Jean Baudrillard

  4. Common aspects & differencesbetweenModernism and POMO Common aspects Differences • Fragmentation • Intertextuality • Reduction of plot • Similar narrative techniques (temporal lapse, stream of consciousness etc.) • M. triestofind a way togivemodern man life a sense, Pomo doesn’t care aboutit • M. presents the eclipseof the narrator, Pomo rejectsit • M. presents fragmentation as something tragic, Pomo rather celebrates that • M. was reserved for an elité, Pomo rejects the distinction between "high" and "low" or popular culture

  5. Main author • Margaret Atwood • John Maxwell Coetzee • Italo Calvino • Mark Wallace • Anne Sexton

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