Modernism vs Post Modernism | Difference and comparison of Modern age vs Post Modern age | Mam Aqsa.

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Outline
Modernism began
in the 1890s and
lasted till 1945.
Based on using
rational, logical
means to gain
knowledge
Post modernism
began after the
2nd world war,
especially after
1968.
Denied the
application of
logical thinking and
rationality.
Modernism was
influenced by the
first world war.
Rejected the
conventional style
of prose and
poetry.
Focus on the
writer
Focus on the
interiority.
It was influenced
by the 2nd world
war.
Deliberately uses
a mixture of
conventional
styles.
Focus on the
reader
Focus on the
exteriority.
Modernism :
Alienation
Literature is
self_contained.
High brow genres
Rejection of literary
conventions
Idiosyncratic
language
Postmodernism:
Collective Voices
Literature is open
and intersexual
Mixing of high and
low brow genres
Parody of literary
conventions
Simple language
Modernism
Seriousness
Master narrative
of progress
through science
and technology
Sense of unified ,
centered self;
individualism,
unified identity.
Postmodernism
Playfulness, irony
and parody
Scepticism of
progress,anti_techn
ology reactions
Sense of
fragmentation and
decentered self;
multiple conflicting
identities.
Idea of the family
as as central unit
of social
order,model of the
middle
class,nuclear
family
Absolute
Progress
Fixed
Pro_Formalism
Alternative family,
units alternative to
middle_class,marri
age model,multiple
identities for
couplings and child
raising.
Relative
Circulation
Random
Anti_formalism