Postmodernism(1950 - Present)

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Postmodernism (1950 - Present)

• Complete break with correctness in literary and
  artistic forms, themes, and ideas. More
  tolerance for different lifestyles, cultures,
  etc
• Comments upon itself.
• Features cultural diversity.
• Blends and overlaps fiction and nonfiction.
• Uses the past fearlessly.

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PM Continued

• WWII, Holocaust, A-Bomb challenged assumptions
  about meaning of life
• Influenced by media and new information
  technology
• Loss of trust that artist could look at
  irrational things in life and make sense of them
• No new art culture endlessly duplicates itself

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PM

• Art is a process idea that art, lit, music can
  be a work in progress indefinitely
• Rejected idea that great works of art were
  immortal
• No distinction between high and low culture
  a cartoon can be true art
• Theme examples study of how materialism in
  society/condemned the shallow or greedy
  viewpoints.

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Postmodernism p. 958-968

• Salinger
• Angelou
• Ginsberg
• Harjo
• Soto
• N. Scott Momaday

• Gallows humor
• New Journalism/Literary Journalism
• The Beat poets/generation
• Confessional School