PPT-POST-MODERNISM

Postmodernism POSTMODERNISM Postmodernism is a concept that encompasses a wide range of ideals methods and practices It is more importantly not a philosophical movement in itself but rather incorporates a number of philosophical and critical methods that can be considered postmodern the most familiar methods include . Week. . 2, Day 1. (8 September 2015). Did You Buy the Class Text??. There is ONE class text ONLY that you MUST obtain for this class. . It’s available from the English Department office (1027), and it costs just 6000 won . The Waste Land. 434 Lines. Published in 1922. Considered one of, if not the, most important poem of the 20. th. century.. Edited by Ezra Pound, leading poet of the Modern Period.. The Waste Land. The five parts of . Judeo-Christian beliefs = apathy or contempt?. Opt for believing in things that seem incoherent or bizarre?. Popular . culture . nurtures aberrant beliefs or misinformed beliefs. My general approach. Reading Contemporary Fiction. Lecture Week Seven. Structure of the lecture. Realism, a brief recap.. Modernism. Modernist . Fiction. Post-Structuralism and Post-Modernism. A Post-Modern text: 500 Days of Summer. Original publication date- 1925. Prior knowledge?. Gatsby Intro- Context. Post war. Pre-Crash. Prohibition. Old Money vs. New Money. American Dream. Gatsby Intro- Modernism. The term modernism refers to the radical shift in aesthetic and cultural sensibilities evident in the art and literature of the post-World War One period. . The term was applied to a whole host of movements, many in art, music, and literature, that reacted against modernism, and are typically marked by revival of traditional elements and techniques.. Literature of this period reflects the social activism and social change characteristic of the times. In the latter half of this period, the influence of the digital age is reflected in new and emerging forms of writing and literacy.. "modernism"). It is a further theme of this work that this influence has been for the worse, not for the better. Modernism in philosophy is characterized by skepticism "father of modern philosophy Movements in Literature and Art. Modernism in Literature. Post WWI, pre WWII. Nontraditional syntax and forms. Accessible to everyone, not just academics. Pessimistic picture of a culture in chaos. Question moral and philosophical meanings. Dubliners. : James Joyce . Shahd. . Alshammari. , AOU, Spring Semester 2013/14. Intro to Part One. The short story as ‘the child of the century’ Elizabeth Brown. . The concept of literary period- historical, cultural, artistic. . unresolved. different meanings across fields. Politics and Econ. Arts. Religion – it is heresy (original use). Modernism. ’. s Materials. the everyday – boring, mundane. day novels – . Ulysses. Rajesh Kevin Sanjay. “Modernism is not a precise label but instead a way of referring to the efforts of many individuals across the arts who tried to move away from established modes of representations”. .. Starter Question:- How is contemporary youth culture different today from cultures in the 50s .60s and 70s?. Theoretical re-cap. Structural theories are Macro – they consider the big structures which determine how society works – social class, gender, functions of institutions like marriage or justice system.. Modernism 1 Modernism….. An international artistic movement Architecture, arts and crafts, film and literature Began in the latter part of the 19 th century Came to an end(?) in the middle of the twentieth century It is another . intellectual movement in the later part of the twentieth century.. It marks a point of . distinct departure from the modernist project both in terms of their intellectual foundation and institutional set-up. .