PPT-Modernism and Post-Modernism

Reading Contemporary Fiction Lecture Week Seven Structure of the lecture Realism a brief recap Modernism Modernist Fiction PostStructuralism and PostModernism A PostModern text 500 Days of Summer. Week. . 2, Day 1. (8 September 2015). Did You Buy the Class Text??. There is ONE class text ONLY that you MUST obtain for this class. . It’s available from the English Department office (1027), and it costs just 6000 won . PROFESSOR SHELDON SCHIFFER. MAYMESTER VERSION. 
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. Office hours: 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM . Daily. Office. :. 25 Park . Place South – Room . 1023. phone. : 404-413-. 5623. email. : schiffer@gsu.. Judeo-Christian beliefs = apathy or contempt?. Opt for believing in things that seem incoherent or bizarre?. Popular . culture . nurtures aberrant beliefs or misinformed beliefs. My general approach. . Post-modernism. . . POST-MODERNISM . Postmodernism is a concept that encompasses a wide range of ideals, methods and practices. It is more importantly not a philosophical movement in itself, but rather, incorporates a number of philosophical and critical methods that can be considered 'postmodern', the most familiar methods include . post-modernism. My intent in this paper is to refute the thesis that the black humor is a modern invention. I am about the attitude to death and life inherent for this kind of humor, arguing that i APPROACHING MODERNISM Defining. Modernism. “I haven’t changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it…It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity. That’s what modernism means to me.”. Shari Benstock. “In accounting for this ‘unsettling’ of self-unity, one must also consider the political and social effects of World War I, the advent of industrial mechanisation, the loss of belief in God, the loss of colonial empires, the changing status of women and minorities, all of which altered the cultural landscape against which literature was produced in the early years of the twentieth century. We live today in a world that has been constructed out of these changes; nearly all the changes that discomposed the complacent world of 1910 have been culturally assimilated.” . .. Starter Question:- How is contemporary youth culture different today from cultures in the 50s .60s and 70s?. Theoretical re-cap. Structural theories are Macro – they consider the big structures which determine how society works – social class, gender, functions of institutions like marriage or justice system.. Cedar Mountain post acute rehabilitation center provide a therapeutic environment for our residents Yucaipa. Individualized treatment programs are developed with the interdisciplinary team of nursing, social services, Healthcare and dietary in consultation with your physicians. Modernism 1915-1940 After World War I Disillusionment with eternal verities of “glory,” “honor,” and “patriotism” after what the soldiers had witnessed. Gertrude Stein (actually, she overheard this): “You are all a lost generation.” Questions to consider . Define the word “modern” in your own words:. What does the word modern mean to you? . What are its associations?. Is it a positive or negative term? Why?. Definition. Modernism is a literary and cultural international movement which flourished in the first decades of the 20th century. It reflects a sense of cultural crisis which was both exciting and disquieting, in that it opened up a whole new vista of human possibilities at the same time as putting into question any previously accepted means of grounding and evaluating new ideas. Modernism is marked by experimentation, particularly manipulation of form, and by the realization that knowledge is not absolute.. It is another . intellectual movement in the later part of the twentieth century.. It marks a point of . distinct departure from the modernist project both in terms of their intellectual foundation and institutional set-up. . Parallelisms and Differences. Critical Studies Series for PG English. Shalini. Rachel Varghese. Asst. Professor, Christian College, . Chengannur. Introduction. Modernism and Postmodernism -two movements in lit and art.