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Modernism x Postmodernism, The Conventions

Modernism
Postmodernism
Adheres to Western hegemonic values
Contests Western hegemonic values
Focus on the writer
Focus on the reader
Focus on interiority
Focus on exteriority
Alienation
Collective voices
Unreliable narrator
Ironic narrator
Rejection of realism
Ambivalence towards realism
Literature is self-contained
Literature is open and intertextual
High-brow genres
Mixing of high- and low-brow genres
Rejection of literary conventions
Parody of literary conventions
Metafictional
Metafictional
Idiosyncratic language
Simple language

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