Post-Modernism

Post contemporaneity From A History of English Literature The end of the Second founding War marked a saucily phase in books. After the war, British writers sh bed a desire for form and a mood of reaction against political ideologyâ€" repulsion from fascism, disillusionment with communism. except only a few of them, such(prenominal) as Samuel Beckett and John Fowles, had any interest, at first, in the theoretically base innovations that were being made in Continental literatures, especially French. Indeed, many English-speaking writers seemed to distrust radical changes of form as much as they distrusted large statements. They preferred minimal affirmations, frequently disguised, like those of Kingsley Amis, John Wain, Philip Larkin, or Angus Wilson, under a cover of sardonic irony. This split between advanced and conventional writing had of course already existed in earlier modernism: Nabokov was hardly published in English until 1941, in Britain until 1957. But now the avant garde, although still separated from the public at large, draw increasing support from the youngâ€"and they began, at first in America, to build a larger following, without however increasing literatures total readership.

The new avant garde literature (neomodernism or postmodernism) partially carried modernism further, partly reacted against itâ€"for example against its ideology and its historical orientation. What it systematically pretended to be (and sometimes actually was) was new. Determinedly self-destructive, it act to cut off its branch of the past, by proposing entirely new methods, a fresh syllabus or canon of authors (Nietszche, Freud, Saussure, Proust) and a new register of allusions. (Postmodern writers like the American Thomas Pynchon are more likely to allude to recent science and politics than to literature of the past.) Supporting all these innovations was a new aesthetic, based at first on existentialism, then on structuralist literary theory. And latterly, postmodern... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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