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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