Modernism
When was the Second Industrial Revolution
Late 1800's
When did World War 2 end?
1945
The focus is on the reader’s experience of reading the text and the author’s awareness of that experience.
The author often uses uncommon, sophisticated, or made-up _______ to express a subjective experience or point of view.
Language
What did Seth Grahme-Smith add to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice?
Zombies
Rejected
Do Postmodern authors focus on the internal or external world?
External
The author uses interiority, stream of consciousness, and inner monologue to explore the narrator’s or character’s psychology.
Character
Stories are often presented in a fragmented or nonlinear way by an ironic _____ or multiple _______. Chinua Achebe explores the opposing but equally sympathetic perspectives of Okonkwo and his father in Things Fall Apart.
Narration
What THREE scientists helped usher in the modern era?
Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud and Charles Darwin
What part of the Narrators life was explored in Modernist works?
Inner Life
Name one of the two ways the structure can be unexpected in Postmodern Novels.
Every chapter is told by a different character or the novel starts in the middle and has an unfulfilling ending.
_____ often include alienation, escapism, and unstable or fragmented identity. Franz Kafka’s story “The Refusal” is a classic example of the modernist themes of alienation and uncertain identity.
Theme
Modernist writers experiment with storytelling elements, such as linear plot structures and character, but generally do not break from established genres. In modernism, literature is still considered an art form.
Language
What is Stream of Consciousness?
Mimicking human patterns of thought which can quickly shift
What THREE things did novels lack in the Modernist Era?
Linear Plot, Chronology and a Reliable Narrator
What THREE things did Postmodernism writings feature?
Everyday Language, Narrative Fragmentation, and Experimentalism
The author creates multiplication of meaning through multiple narrators with multiple perspectives on the same issue.
Narrative Coherence
Stories are often presented in a subjective, often fragmented or nonlinear way. As an example, consider the complicated logic of Marlow, the _____ of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.
Narration
How would you describe Postmodern text structures?
Unexpected/Challenging
What two books and painting are used as examples of the Modernist Era?
How do Postmodern authors reveal their self-awareness?
Quoting, referring to or parodying other texts.
The author may concentrate on exteriority, often through a third-person omniscient narrator who focuses on the social or physical world.
Character
Modernist writers experiment with storytelling elements, such as linear plot structures and character, but generally do not break from established _____. In modernism, literature is still considered an art form.
Genre
What is another term for using several narrators in Postmodern literature?
Multiplication