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What is Postmodernism?
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Postmodernity Postmodernism
A notation of time and history: the “postmodern era”
Simply after the modern period (historically from about 1700-1945)
What happens in 1945 to make us a “postmodern” world?
The “postmodern subject” (you)
Artistic sensibility or movement that follows the modernist artistic period
Postmodern: art
Postmodern: film
Postmodern: literature
Postmodern: architecture
Post – Modern – Ism
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An Abbreviated Timeline of Literary -isms
1785 1860 1901 1950
Romanticism
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An Abbreviated Timeline of Literary -isms
1785 1860 1901 1950
Romanticism Realism
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An Abbreviated Timeline of Literary -isms
1785 1860 1901 1950
Romanticism Realism Modernism
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An Abbreviated Timeline of Literary -isms
1785 1860 1901 1950
Romanticism Realism Modernism Postmodernism
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Literature Painting
Lord Byron
Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein
Edgar Allan Poe
Wordsworth
Romanticism
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Literature Painting
Stephen Crane
Mark Twain
Charles Dickens
Herman Melville
Realism
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Impressionism
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Post-Impressionism
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Modernism: “On or about December 1910”
Literature
Joseph Conrad
James Joyce
Virginia Woolf
T.S. Eliot
William Faulkner
Graham Greene
Painting
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Abstract Expressionism: “Modern Art”
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Postmodernism: Embracing Popular Culture
Literature and Film
Salman Rushdie
Kurt Vonnegut
Tony Morisson
Quentin Tarantino
Neil Gaiman
Tim Burton
Martin Amis
Yann Martel
Visual Art
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Features of Postmodernism
Pastiche: references many and varied sources (think Kill Bill) Blurs or erases the distinction between “mass” and “high” art, i.e.
pop culture Takes as its subject art itself: “meta” Contests traditional and linear notions of time and narrative (Pulp
Fiction) “Nothing new under the sun” Nostalgic: simultaneously longs for a rooted past while constantly
pointing out the transient nature of our era (A Month in the Country)
Existential Fragmentation: you are not “you,” you are “yous” (Time’s Arrow)
Everything is a “text” and can be “read” (interpreted, criticized, analyze, etc.) – i.e. football in Fever Pitch
Floating signifiers (Abstract Expressionism)
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Is Life of Pi A “Postmodern” Novel?
Does it explore the nature of identity? Is Pi a singular or “whole” subject, or is he multiple
(“hims”)? Is language referential as in the Chardin fruit bowl, or are
there points where it fails to signify as with Cezanne’s fractured planes?
Is The Life of Pie nostalgic? Does it draw from or rearticulate past works of
literature? Does it contain any meta commentary. Meaning, does it
ask the reader to think about the nature of language and literature/fiction?