Modernism
- "make it new"
- "angry young man" syndrome
- from WWI to WWII
- psychological focus
- one truth - universal truth
- new forms of narrative
- unreliable, multiple narrators
- minor character as narrator
- non linear narrative
- stream of consciousness
- modernists suspicious of points of view
- interested in layering multiple points of view
- ie: Picasso's Cubism
- reader must make connections - author makes no judgement
Post-Modernism
- WWII and forward
- modernism ends at different times in US and Britain because US adopts TV's first
- instant availability of info on other people's opinions - crucial to post modernism
- post modernism = modernism - universal truth + irony
- eroding of belief that there is 1 truth
- all truth is local
- blending of high and low culture (operas about Elvis)
- self-reference
- mediated world exists in the same way our world exists
- ie: characters, literary, tv, etc
- simulacrum
- the copy replaces the reality
- ie: wild west shows
Surrealism
- movement in the arts between WWI and WWII
- uses unexpected juxtaposition in ways intended to activate subconscious
- associations that highlight truth hidden from us when we are trapped in linear "logical" patterns of thought
- dreamlike, playful, sometimes eerie
~~~~~~~~Outside Connections~~~~~~~~~
Books like All is Quiet on the Western Front and The Red Badge of Courage fit in to Modernism while books like Slaughterhouse-Five fit into Post Modernism.
An example of self reference is when characters from different shows are mixed, like The Jetsons Meet the Flinstones, or movies entirely devoted to mocking other movies, like Scary Movie.
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