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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.
