difference between modernism and Postmodernism

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1. Difference between Modernism and postmodernism Name::- Sneha Agravat

Batch:- 2020-22 (MA sem 2)

Paper 10:- History of English Literature from 1900 to 2000

Roll no.:-16

Enrollment no.:-3069206420200001

E-mail Id :- [email protected] Submitted to:- S.B.Gardi Department Of English Maharaja krishnkumarsinhji Bhavngar University

2. What is Modernism? Modernism is a literary and cultural international movement which flourished in the first decades of the 20 th century. Modernism is not a term to whicha single meaning can be ascribed. It may be applied both to the content and to the form of a work, or to either in isolation.
Modernism is a comprehensive movement which began in the closing years of the 19 th century and has had a wide influence internationally during much of the 20 th century.

3. What is postmodernism? Postmodernism is a term, which was not existed earlier, but with the passing of time including the gradual growth of modernism, it came into existence and got establishment as a major term, separated from modernism. The term ‘Postmodernism’ is often applied to the literature and art after World War 2 (1939-1945). Postmodernism provided the best references like Dick Hebidge, Jorgen habremas, Terry Eagle ton and Christopher Norris have rallied and railed against the turn towards postmodernism.

4. “A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.”
— Jean-Francois Lyotard

5. Characteristics of Modernism Refusal of coherent meaning
Rejection of realism
Subjectivity
Split temporalities
Unstable identity
Idiosyncratic language
Metafiction
Experimental forms
Split identities
Focus on interiority
Unreliable narrat or

6. Characteristics of postmodernism Ambivalent stance towards realism
Split temporalities
Ironic narrator
Metafiction
Fragmentation
Multiple points of view
Focus on exteriority
Pastiche
Irony
Black humour
Intertextuality

7. Modernism Postmodernism V/s

8. Modernism Postmodernism Postmodernism is a school of thought that took place after World War II. 2. Postmodernism believed in the irrationality of things. Postmodernist era was characterized by the advancement in technology and its use in different media. Postmodernists did not believe in universal truth. Modernism is a school of thought that took place in late 1800s and early 1900s. Modernism advocated rational thinking and the use of science and reason for the advancement of man. Modernist era was characterized by the simple and elegant original works of gifted artists
Modernists believed in universal truth

9. Modernism Modernist were not political
Focus on the writer. Focus on interiority
Unreliable narrator
Rejection of realism
Literature is self-contained Postmodernism Postmodernists were very political. Focus on the reader. Focus on exteriority
Ironic narrator
Ambivalence towards realism
Literature is open and intertextual.

10. Modernism High-brow genres
Rejection of literary conventions Idiosyncratic language
Modernism emerged around the time of the second industrial revolution (1870-1920), which was marked by the decline of stable social classes, the beginning of professionalism, and a sense of urban alienation. Postmodernism Mixing of high- and low-browgenres
Parody of literary conventions Simple language
Postmodernism generally refers to cultural phenomena with certain characteristics that emerged after the Second World War. When exactly postmodernism starts vary according to national contexts and individual critics.

11. Conclusion In sum up we can say that some belives that postmodernism was a response to has consideredAnd hence consider them as two aspects of the same movement.and further we see some Major differences between modernism and postmodernism. These distinctions make clear , the basic difference in ways of thinking that led to these movements.The difference between modernism and postmodernism in literature depends on their themes and literary and narrative techniques.

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