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POST-MODERNISM

POST-MODERNISM. WHAT,WHERE,WHEN. Sensitized by the insights of some of the classic thinkers, ranging from Marx, to Weber, to Durkheim, Freud, and the critical thought of the Frankfurt School, postmodernist thought emerged in Europe with a new intensity in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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POST-MODERNISM

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  1. POST-MODERNISM

  2. WHAT,WHERE,WHEN Sensitized by the insights of some of the classic thinkers, ranging from Marx, to Weber, to Durkheim, Freud, and the critical thought of the Frankfurt School, postmodernist thought emerged in Europe with a new intensity in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Postmodernists are fundamentally opposed to modernist thought.

  3. THEMES • reject boundaries between high and low forms of art; • reject rigid genre distinctions; • emphasize parody, bricolage, irony and playfulness; • favor reflexivity and self-consciousness, fragmentation and discontinuity,ambiguity, simultaneity; • evidence on the destructured, decentered, dehumanized subject.

  4. POSTMODERNISM VS MODERNISM

  5. WHO JOHN MAXWELL COETZEE Winner of the Nobel Prize for literacture in 2003, he is consider the most important writer of South Africa. Bore in 1940 in Città del Capo, he gratuated in maths and language. In 60s he worked in London as computer programmer for IBM. Later he graduates in literary in Texas Universty and he teached english language and literacture in Buffalo University. Now he’s working for english department in Adelaide University.

  6. FOE by J. M. Coetzee Edit in 1986, this novel is an example of re-writing of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. It uses allegorical techniques and is considered by many critics as the archetypal post-modern novel, examining the creative process of storytelling, narrative, language, as well as issues of gender, race and colonialism.

  7. BIOGRAPHY • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maxwell_Coetzee • http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~amerstu/573/pomochart.html • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foe_%28novel%29 • http://www.marilenabeltramini.it • http://www.vialattea.net/odifreddi/coetzee/coetzee.html • http://www.colorado.edu/English/courses/ENGL2012Klages/pomo.html

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