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padilas [110]
3 years ago
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BRAINLIEST!! With the beginning of the new twentieth century and the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, a new era of literature ha

d begun.
Write an essay in which you discuss the characteristics of modernism and postmodernism in literature. Use at least three different selections from this unit to serve as examples of the characteristics.
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Tanzania [10]3 years ago
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Answer:

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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