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Modernism and Post Modernism in Literature

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1 Modernism and Post Modernism in Literature
1900-present

2 Modernism Modernist literature 1901-1945 Rejections & experimentation
individuality, the randomness of life, mistrust of government and religion used fragmentation, flash backs, multiple point of view, allusion, and stream of consciousness. Character epiphanies Quest for meaning/absolute truth

3 Modernism James Joyce ( ) was an Irish novelist, short story novel writer, poet and playwright born in Dublin. Ulysses—thought sequence, no punctuation William Butler Yeats (poet) Demotic language (not poetic language) Political subject matter Ugliness and violence, where these are appropriate to the subject matter (no attempt to make everything aesthetically pleasing in a poeticised vision of loveliness).

4 POST MODERNISM Postmodern literature=World War II literature
Much of the same features as modernism but even more experimentation Unreliable narrator There is no absolute truth or meaning in the world & it’s useless to search for it

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