Modernism
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Postmodernism
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Adheres to Western hegemonic values
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Contests Western hegemonic values
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Focus on the writer
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Focus on the reader
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Focus on interiority
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Focus on exteriority
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Alienation
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Collective voices
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Unreliable narrator
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Ironic narrator
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Rejection of realism
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Ambivalence towards realism
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Literature is self-contained
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Literature is open and intertextual
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High-brow genres
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Mixing of high- and low-brow genres
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Rejection of literary conventions
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Parody of literary conventions
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Metafictional
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Metafictional
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Idiosyncratic language
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Simple language
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Postmodernism : " A broad movement that developed in the mid- to late 20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism, marking a departure from modernism. I s characterized by the self-conscious use of earlier styles and conventions, a mixing of different artistic styles and media, and a general distrust of theories." Compared to Modernism: Modernist thinking is about the search of an abstract truth of life. Postmodernist thinkers believe that there is no universal truth, abstract or otherwise ! What is their focus? The common targets of postmodernism and critical theory include universalist notions of objective reality, morality, truth, human nature, reason, language, and social progress. Major Features / Themes of Postmodernism: Use of language, pastiche, intertextuality, metafiction, equality, tehnoculture and hyperreality, temporal distortion, paranoia, magic realism maximalism and minimalism. Famo...
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