Post-Modernism questions and answers rated A+ 2023/2024 updated to pass

Post-Modernismwhat are the subjects of many post-modernism novels - correct answer anti-war and anti-government feelings stemming from WW2, the Korean War, and the Cold War Many of the changes in the world following WW2 (sometimes horrific) led to what in literature - correct answer the proud assertion and passionate exploration of personal, ethnic, and racial identity differences between modernism and post-modernism - correct answer -modernism is influenced by Marxism and Freud's studies of the unconscious while post-modernism is influenced by media, language studies, and information technology -modernism deals with a loss of trust in rationality and newfound trust in an artists ability to find meaning in the irrational, while post-modernism losses some of the trust in the irrational -modernism ideas are unique while post-modernism aren't necessarily -modernism believes that high and low society are separated by a dividing line while post-modernism does not believe this -modernism believes fine art is superior to cartoon, while post-modernism believes cartoons can be fine art how is post-modernism a reaction to/rejection of modernism - correct answer reintroduces traditional or classical elements of style or by carrying modernist styles to extremes characteristics of post-modernism literature - correct answer -freedom to adopt any elements from previous literary movements -a focus on the meaningless of existence -fiction and nonfiction seem to merge w/ fictional techniques to analyze real events (In Cold Blood) -writers combine historical figures with fictional ones overall elements of post-modernism - correct answer -mix of fantasy with nonfiction -talkative, sprawling, shifting style -stream of consciousness -confusion and chaos -focus on individuals in isolation instead of heroes -focus on social issues -an erosion of the distinction between classes of people -storytelling is emphasized -use of present tense narrative voice -sense of fragmentation and multiple, conflicting identities -alternative family units and alternatives to traditional marriage -skepticism of the ideas of progress and technology Kurt Vonnegut - correct answer -known for portraying the world and nature of existence through science fiction, satire, and dark comedy -chaotic fictional universes filled with wonder, coincidence, randomness, and irrationality -wrote Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions Truman Capote - correct answer -created new literary genre; nonfiction novel -wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood, Other Voices Other Rooms beat writer were - correct answer pre-hippie, highly intellectual, anti-tradition, countered the hidden dispair of the 50's with wildly exuberant language and behavior major beat writers - correct answer william s burroughs jack kerouac allen ginsberg ken kesey pastiche - correct answer combine or "paste" together multiple elements