Modernism's Lamentation and Postmodernism's Celebration

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English

 

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James A

 

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May 16, 2013

 

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University

 

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Modernism and postmodernism strongly emphasize a new standard which distances and rejects the romantic period's ideas of how art should be created and how one should perceive art. Annie Dillard's Holy the Firm and Virginia Woolf's "An Unwritten Novel" are both excellent examples of the modern and postmodern literary movements, and can be used to illustrate their general similarities and subtle differences...
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Contrary to one of the romantic period's typical characteristics, modernism and postmodernism both place an emphasis on how the process of perception occurs, rather than what is being perceived. In addition, rather than focus on the physical sense of what is being perceived, modernism and postmodernism focus on the individual thought process and mental impressions of the writer...
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