Postmodern



Postmodern
 * Characteristics**: The term **Postmodern** is used to describe certain tendencies in post-[|World War II] literature. It is both a continuation of the experimentation championed by writers of the modernist period (relying heavily, for example, on fragmentation, paradox, questionable narrators, etc.) and a reaction against [|Enlightenment] ideas implicit in [|Modernist literature]. Allows multiple meaning for multiple words. Structures also work in nontraditional forms. Comments upon itself. Features cultural diversity ,Blends and overlaps fiction and nonfiction. Also Uses the past fearlessly.

Postmodernist see contemporary culture as a,change, a development, or a departure- from modernism.

Atomic Anxiety was about atomic attacks that used to happen and how it used affect people.

Postmodern traits are that their stories deal with the poets' personal lives. Their poems are frank and brutal poems about their private lives. //The Game// is a good example of postmodern literature because it deals with the personal lives of the people in the story. It is a very weird story that catches the crazy side of the people in the story.

Contemporary Nonfiction: Breaking the Barriers was a non-literary form and questions of terminology and accuracy and new journalism.

The decline of Modernism: Writers and readers thought that modernist poetry was no longer appropriate. They were impersonal, allusive, and difficult.

For the Beat Poets: Jazz, Late night coffeehouse, and bohemian life.

Confessional School of Poets-Sylvia Plath, Lowell, Anne Saxton, John Berryman wrote poems about their personal life. A time of Diversity: style and attitude and democratic quality

Where the Present Meets the Past on the way to the future: Literature captures a wide audience by a fresh voice and new attitude for a new graduation. Everything is connected in the end, and the contemporary American literature still deals with the same thing.

Post-modernism (sometimes abbreviated //Po-mo//[|[1]]) is a term originating in [|architecture], literally 'after the modern', denoting a style that is more ornamental than [|modernism], and which borrows from previous architectural styles, often in a playful or [|ironic] fashion.

Post-Modern writers forged new styles and new forms to express the sensibility of the twentieth century. Post-Modern writers also build with many of the tools provided by modernists. This makes literature that is very different from the first half of the century.

"Who are we?" Many people often feel they are only a number on a computer disk or a credit card. Even our thoughts seem to be controlled by mass advertising, mass journalism,and mass entertainment. So we are turning from doing labor by hand to having machines doing the labor for. So we are becoming more lazy through time and technology.
 * A model of the world**

"Why is the world the way it is? Where does it all come from? Where do we come from?"
 * Explanation**

"Where are we going to?" After World War 2 came a new age of science and technology. Because of this it offered Americansincreased opportunities for economic and cultural growth.
 * Futurology**

"What is good and what is evil?" -Technology of a new era that helps to home and feed many people better than before. It has increased life spans and has bettered the quality of life. "How should we act?" -Postmoderns use the tools of the moderns. They act in similar fashion to the moderns. "What is true and what is false?" - how do we know? -The postmoderns believe in the future. They are always looking for new ways to better life.
 * Values**
 * Action**
 * Knowledge**