Postmodernism questions fully solved graded A+

Postmodernism Postmodernism - correct answer aesthetic, cultural *metafiction* (narrative within narrative) *self-reflexivity* *blurring of boundaries* (no high & low culture) *sheer play and existential commitment* *pastiche* (Comic Mona Lisa) (pieces of art alluding to what came before, revisit old style vs. Modernism, reinvent everything) *linguistic scepticism/deconstruction* (poststructuralism: meaning collapsed, my pen is not your pen) Meaning = unstable Not just literature, also fashion, architecture (mixture of classic & modern), music... Other features of postmodernism - correct answer -playfulness -experimentalism -"anything goes" -combo of styles that were before -no more taboo (Maus, defamiliarisation) Postmodernity - correct answer social, economic identity politics (Cold War, emancipation, Civil Rights ) threat of nuclear annihilation communication tech. (Internet) information society global financial markets consumer capitalism Postmodernism book e.g. - correct answer Lost in the funhouse (John Barth) Don DeLillo (White Noise) City of Glass (Paul Auster) Postmodernity e.g. - correct answer Simulacra and simulation (Jean Beaudrillard) Postmodernism = Pop cult? - correct answer Frederic Jameson: Blurring of boundaries, erosion of distinction btw high & low culture Blurring of boundaries e.g. - correct answer *Dior advertisement* Combines old & new in a very obvious way product not that present movie & commercial genre blurred *Steampunk* (blurring old & new... human and machine) *cyborg* Blurring of boundaries in Literature: Intertextuality and Intermediality - correct answer -adaptations of classics (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tom Stoppard. (Hamlet) ) -rewritings: (Jean Rhys. Wide Sargasso Sea (Jane Eyre)) -spin-offs (Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, Michael Cunningham's The Hours) Origins and Aim of Postmodernism - correct answer -ca. 1945 onwards -against the "great divide" -against modernism and its elitism -"pop in the broadest sense was the context in which postmodern first took shape" (A. Huyssen) - pop culture as the cradle of postmodernism Jean François Lyotard, the postmodern condition - correct answer -"the loss of metanarratives (e.g. truth) in postmodern age - leads to "anything goes" attitude, resulting in loss of substance, in production & knowledge"