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1 Bilde inn Chapter 7 Postmodernism Valerie Barden: Airport

2 Modernism vs. Postmodernism
Uneven transition from Modernism to Postmodernism Reaction to elitism of the Modernists Response to developments in mass communication and new (digital) technology

3 The Postmodern sensibility
Eclectic, pick’n’mix attitude to style, ideology… Ambiguity, irony, meta-communication Concept of reality is complicated

4 Postmodern literature
Mix of styles and genres Mix of “high-brow” and “low-brow” Mix of serious and comic Open-ended plot structures

5 Postmodern literature cont’d
Playful attitude to chronology Unreliable narrators Reality and fiction mixed

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