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Postmodernism
1.When does your time period occur?
Postmodernism started 1945 and has lasted to 2011.
2. Who are the most important and influential authors? Some important authorsduring the postmodernism area are: Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and George Luis Borges.
3. Which are the important works? What are they about?
House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski.Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut.
Labyrinths, Jorges Luis Borges.
American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis.
Catch-22, Joseph Heller.http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR5c6oZnnY3oFAU0SS3Y6q7NLl80i-2Ay7_errs1QeB-atZTgYqhttp://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQq-m5JEZ6CqeQ26qgqFz_lQV8D8R1JK-DRxWtEDB3N43LRpWLYhttp://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQcL2ZQviJLCfK09sg2Mv0eh4v9SUIq8mTP7Ec-E9yX36mHRxAPEwhttp://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRkJCwJvcW5_lMxhA-umV9IN45YmeE1-poErJJ2TDy6z1CQj5lRcZ7POYUhttp://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQa2K2nyQ4hLoZSGBgAPEx3YnMKY1dNUsRQqwsORZpGF-Fi-yyQ
http://listverse.com/2009/02/13/top-10-works-of-postmodern-literature/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism
4. What is the literature like?
Postmodernistic literature is defined in relation to its precursor. The postmodern authors achieve to write about playful things, the possibility of meaning and the postmodern novel is morethan often a parody of a thing they feel to write about. The literature tends to celebrate chance over craft, and they also tend to employ false meanings to undermine the writer’s authority.Another thing is the questioning of distinctions between low and high culture through the use of an older written text. It also tends to use the combination of genres and subject.Typical paragraph from the postmodern time
“The tradition of liberal rationalism is threatened by cultural relativism”“Nazism-Fascism is not involved in the current university controversy”...