modernism v/s postmodernism

1. The Literary theory and Crit
icism
Prepared by
Makwana Monika
Department of English

2. • Modernism vs. postmodernism
 Name:- Makwana Monika
 Paper No:- 7 the Literary theory and Criticism
 Topic:-Modernism Vs. Postmodernism
 Roll no:- 21
 Enrollment No:- 2069108420190027
 Email I’d:- Makwanamonika76@gmail.com
 Submitted to:- S. B. Gardi department of English

3. Modern age Post-modern age
 Modernism is contrasts to t
his and is the movement fro
m late 19th to the 20th centu
ry.
 It celebrated ‘newness’ and
wanted art and music to refl
ect a new and contemporar
y society diminishing traditi
onal and old fashioned style
.
 Post-modernism is the radi
cal movement that devel
oped in the mid to late
20th century.
 This broad movement cov
ers the arts, philosophy, ar
chitecture, and the criticis
m of modernism.

4. • What is modernism?
 The term modernism is use
d to describe the changes th
at took place in the western
society.
 Modernism describes a bro
ad late 20th.
 It is a philosophical moveme
nt that along side with the c
ultural trend changes in wes
tern society.

5. • What is post-modernism?
 The term has been applied t
o both era following moder
nity and to host of moveme
nt within era.
 Post-modern began with po
p art and abases the concep
tual art.
 Feminist art and young Briti
sh artist of the 1990s

6. • Modernism post-modernism
 Adherence to western heg
emonic values.
 Focus on the writer.
 Focus on interiority.
 Alienation
 Unreliable narrator
 Rejection of realism
 Literature is self-contained
.
 High- brow genres
 Rejection of literary conve
ntion.
 Idiosyncratic language
 Contrasts western hegemon
ic values.
 Focus on the reader
 Focus on exteriority
 Collective voices
 ironic narrator
 Ambivalence towards realis
m.
 Literature is open and intert
exual.
 Parody of high and low-bro
w genres.
 Simple language

7. • Modernism vs. post-modernism
 It was prevalent from late 19t
h century and early 20tyh cent
ury.
 It was influenced by the first
world war.
 It was based on using rational
and logical means to gain kno
wledge.
 It rejected realism
 It rejected the conventional st
yle of prose and poetry.
 It was prevalent from the m
id-twentieth century.
 It was influenced by the sec
ond world war.
 It was based on
an unscientific,
irrational.
 It rejected logical thinking
 It deliberately uses.
a mixture of conventional st
yles.

8. • Comparison between modernis
m and post-modernism
 both rejecting boundaries between high a
nd form of art: culture is only.
 Rejecting rigid genre distinctions.
 Reflexivity and self consciousness.
 Both were terms developed in the 20th cen
tury.

9. • Modernist post- modernist
 Virginia Woolf
 James Joyce
 T. S. Eliot
 Ezra pound
 Joseph Conrad
 Samuel bucket
 Marianne Moore
 Dorothy Richardson
 Bob Dylan
 John Berryman
 Italo Calvino
 Paul Auster
 Zadie smith
 Allen Ginsberg
 Doris Lessing
 William H. Grass

10. • Works of modernist
 Winesburg, Ohio
 Tradition and the individual talent
 The Waste Land
 The Great Gatsby
 The sun also Rises
 A farewell to arms
 The sound and the fury
 Light in August

11. • Works of post-modernist
 Catch-22
 Slaughterhouse five
 Lost in the funhouse
 The things they carried
 White noise
 Gravity’s rainbow
 The crying of lot 49

12. • conclusion
 New literature, art, and culture af
ter world war II created, analyzes
of those is known as postmoderni
sm. It is opposed modernism.