Postmodernism

The postmodernism movement aimed at breaking the hold that modern design had on designers and their skills. As the author (Anon., 2015) said "something warmer, brighter and more experimental." Postmodernism was an outwardly exciting multifaceted style that ran from the bright to the ruinous, the ridiculous to the sumptuous. It conveyed a radical flexibility to craftsmanship and outline through signals that were regularly interesting, once in a while angry and periodically ridiculous. The greater…

The question of whether the relationship between Feminism and Postmodernism is or has been a productive one (especially for the former) is one that has been asked for a generation now. In its wake has emerged philosophies and theories which have profoundly challenged, if not altered, the shape and direction of Feminism, much to the ongoing dismay of many of its advocates. While the often-contentious discourse around these “two leading currents of our time” (17) did not begin with the debate that…

literature changed its perspective; most commonly, however, was the transition from modernist ideals to postmodernist ideals. Much like modernism, post-modernism offered to reject the ideals presented by popular trends during their time; yet for postmodernism, the rejection, in this case, mostly dealt with homogeneity (a universal standard defined by advancements in American quality of life) and how literature acts as a deconstructive tool (Byam 2259-2260). Yet many of these deconstructions…

While Fredric Jameson defines “parody” as the aspect of “modern” and “pastiche” as that of “postmodern” (Jameson 1131), Hutcheon strongly refutes that postmodernism is a creative and ironical parody. Her idea of parody borrows things from the past and attempts to let the audience, or the people, to acknowledge the limitation of the representation. In this perspective, Heiner Müller’s Hamlet/Machine (1978)…

Postmodernism literature features both irony and intertextuality that can make a play distinctive from others. In Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, it differentiates from other plays and how it was affected during this postmodern era. Dramatic irony refers to the audience knowing something that the characters do not, and intertextuality is including ideas from the famous Shakespearean play of Hamlet where the characters originate. In the play, the art of performance plays a vital role in…

Postmodernism is a late-20th-century movement in the arts, architecture, and criticism that was a departure from modernism. Postmodernism was a movement in architecture that rejected the functionalist, modernist ideals of rationality and also used to describe a dissatisfaction with modern architecture. Postmodernism is characterized by the return of ornament and symbol to form. The aims of the postmodernism was look back to the past for inspiration of history and tradition, ideas of…

Scholar Associate Professor Department of English English Wing, DDE, Annamalai University Annamalai University Abstract The aim of this research paper is to expose the postmodern aesthetics in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. Postmodernism first gained its popularity in America and it become rich and varied in the hands of the American writers and critic. Kurt Vonnegut’ also one of the postmodern writers of the 20th century, his use of different narrative technique in the novel…

Modernism and postmodernism literature The 20th century can be separated into two distinct periods; one characterized by the modernism movement and the other by postmodernism. Some consider that postmodernism was a response to modernism and therefore consider them as two aspects of the same movement. The Modern Age in English Literature started from the beginning of the twentieth century, and it followed the Victorian Age. Modernism refers to cultural movements of the late nineteenth and…

understood reality. The meaning of words is clear and those meanings are understood apart from taking culture or context into account. Language is part of the scientific method and viewed objectively. In postmodernism, language contextualizes and…

it seems like this was Andy’s way of showing the world this is the new world we live in, and to appreciate this new form of art in this new age. In one of our readings titled “No More Rules”, Pagner helps the reader understand the contrast of postmodernism as “this could entail the juxtaposition of old and new, or the witty inversion of the old” (Pagner 19). Warhol grasped this concept did this by taking a well known historical face and exploiting it into a piece of art. This is evident in his…