EN 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Postmodern Literature, Modernism, Metafiction
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Recap: post modernism in itself is a confusing topic. It refuses to fit into definition: post modernism, called into question the work of the grand narratives of modernity. Sure, the writes something we are interested in the text itself. The author is dead to us we are just into the text. This is different than modernism because the author was central to the modernist project: rejects the importance of the author. We don"t need to worry about who and here"s the way to do it. The post modernists look back from the second world war and they say clearly, they didn"t know how to do it. None of chose the words we are using but they are not our words. We are always stuck replicating/rehashing the past: critical approach of post-modern: they brought the same concerns. Shakespeare and brought up that same post-modernist skepticism.
