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MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM: CHARACTERISTICS.
Modernism is one period of major literary movement which began in the 17th century that made the transition from a feudal system to capitalism.
It was well known by its scientific worldview and progressive discourses and logic.
Modernism began around 1870-1920 which was around the time of the second industrial revolution and witnessed a sharp decline of the social class, and urbanization.
Literary modernism is the period when there was a general feeling of dissatisfaction with the Victorian era of conservatism and belief in objectivity.
This literary modernism was influenced by Charles Darwin, Frederick Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, etc.
Some of the characteristics of Modernism include:
Focuses on the writer
Rejects realism
Rejects literary conventions
Uses idiosyncratic language
Unreliable narrator
It is metafictional
Postmodern literature or postmodernism is the period after modernism which began around 1980's sometime after the Second World War.
This period is popularly referred to the cultural phenomena associated with the effects of WWII.
Some prominent postmodern writers include Hunter Thompson, Henry Miller, William Burrough, Agatha Christie, etc.
Some of the characteristics of Postmodernism:
Focuses on the reader
Use of ironic narrator
Use of open land intertextual iterature
Use of simple language
Makes a parody of literary conventions
It is metafictional
*Metafiction is the type of fiction that an author uses parody to allude to the artificial nature of a work from normal conventions and traditional narration.
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