POSTMODERNISM FINAL NOTES - Multiple Choice

MODERNISM VS. POSTMODERNISM: Priority

Modernism: originality, newness
Postmodernism: appropriation, pastiche, quotation

MODERNISM VS. POSTMODERNISM: Authorship or Collaboration?

Modernism: authorship
Postmodernism: collaboration

MODERNISM VS. POSTMODERNISM: Knowledge

Modernism: stable
Postmodernism: in flux

MODERNISM VS. POSTMODERNISM: Progress and Science

Modernism: key to future
Postmodernism: skeptical

MODERNISM VS. POSTMODERNISM: Human Subject

Modernism: unified
Postmodernism: diverse

MODERNISM VS. POSTMODERNISM: Experience and Reality

Modernism: truths exists
Postmodernism: many truths exist

MODERNISM VS. POSTMODERNISM: Master Narratives

Modernism: history, science, conservative
Postmodernism: questionable; for difference, plurality, woke liberal

MODERNISM VS. POSTMODERNISM: Transmitters of Knowledge

Modernism: only print and tv media
Postmodernism: web/digital/social media but many

MODERNISM VS. POSTMODERNISM: Serious or Ironic?

Modernism: serious
Postmodernism: ironic

MODERNISM VS. POSTMODERNISM: Whole or Hybrid?

Modernism: whole
Postmodernism: hybrid/sampling

MODERNISM VS. POSTMODERNISM: Realness

Modernism: real
Postmodernism: hyperreal and simulacrum

HYPERREAL AND SIMULACRUM

• Lewis Carroll’s imaginary map: country itself used as map

• Jorge Luis Borges’s map and imagined empire: “the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City”

  • Jean Baudrillard: map precedes territory and Borges’s fable territory’s shreds slowly rot across map

PUBLISHED USES OF “POSTMODERN”

1959: Irving Howe

1971: Ihab Habib Hassan "POSTmodernISM"

1977: Charles Jencks

1979: Jean-François Lyotard “postmoderne”

1981: Jean Baudrillard

1984 + 1991: Fredric Jameson