Postmodern literature

Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era. Each artist in each of the era’s have their own personal style and remarkable design. Artist strive for a unique style, this is which most do achieve by taking daily items and creating an extraordinary design. I do believe that modern art is consider art due to the unique way they interpret everyday objects into…

Along with these historical moments being adjusted to better fit a narrative, Carey’s incorporation of magical realism compels the narrative to drift further from being a fact-based to more of a folkloric piece. These elements include the banshee, rat catcher, and a magnificent horseman who appears as a “wraith-like boy” (Clancy 175). The newspaper articles from The Jerilderie Gazette and The Morning Chronicle are also used to show the subjectivity experienced by Ned Kelly. In an interview with…

nature i.e. a metafiction. However, the focus in this study will be on the most noticeable type that is verbal irony. which reflects on the protagonists’ interpersonal relationships, their attitudes towards each other. The analysis focuses on the postmodern concept of irony in Atonement. In her book entitled Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction (1984)…

As the age of postmodernism dawned, the stigma and nature of literature changed and the idea of the ‘death of the author’ was born. Instead of reaching obvious conclusions in their stories, authors began to leave gaps and ironies in their work, allowing readers to form their own opinions. But, while some people are not satisfied with the idea of these ‘open systems,’ perhaps the most significant pieces of work were born during this era of postmodernism. For example, Thomas Pynchon’s short story…

Both Dave Eggers and David Foster Wallace are well-known postmodern writers who with their works tried to reflect on modern society and address some of their shortcomings. Both approaches this subject in their own way, focusing on different aspects of the problem they are tackling in each of their stories. David Foster Wallace as well as Dave Eggers touched on the topic of relationships and to be specific troubled and difficult relationships. Eggers in "The Only Meaning of Oil-Wet Water" shows…

Mr. Mahmud Ullah, Associate Professor, Department of Marketing, University of Dhaka, told me to read lots of books, and to be an inquisitive learner. His speech impressed me a lot, and I spent some of my best days in reading books, especially of literature. I had gone through the texts of the modernist writers, i.e. Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, and David Herbert Lawrence as a consequence of my reading. Finding their writings very intriguing relating to class, gender, and race,…

In his book, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas Foster introduces key concepts that are applied in the widespread world of literature; furthermore, Foster does express that “‘Always’ and ‘never’ are not words that have much meaning in literary study...”(19) due to numerous authors creating pieces that do not follow the general trend, thus his teachings should be taken as a general rule of thumb. In order to get a better grasp of his teachings, the novel Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda…

of the Past Time”, in which she specifies that literature and history are narrative form and how they rely more on verisimilitude rather than objective truth (Hutcheon, 111). By verisimilitude, Hutcheon relates to the truth to life and is interested in making readers examine historical texts as a means of authenticating the fictional text. She sees the historical meaning today as being “unstable, contextual, relational and provisional”. Postmodern fiction, in turn underlines making stories out…

novels written. In the earlier periods, the authors wanted to be fairly grounded, concrete and structured; but now they wanted more of the abstract and unrealistic plots, and often with paradoxes of various kinds. It is also said that authors of the Postmodern period after World War II very often saw the world as troubled and fragmented, like it was on the edge of disaster. Many of the writers were also suffering from psychological problems, such as paranoia. The book is about…

taste of the masses. After a brief introduction where Pennington reports a series of enthusiastic reviews of the saga, he argues that Harry Potter is "failed fantasy" (Pennington 78) and J.K. Rowling is incapable of abiding to the rules of fantasy literature. Firstly, Pennington claims that Harry Potter merely replicates reality - from Hogwarts to Quidditch, the elements in the saga are nothing more than exotic-sounding names derived from everyday reality - and it's an assemblage of clichés from…