presentation on modernism, post modernism & new historicism
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This is my presentation on the three terms or theories, which can be helpful to students of literary theory and criticism for getting ideas.TRANSCRIPT
Modernism, Post-Modernism & New-Historicism
Name: Riddhi Jani
Roll no: 25
Paper: 7, Literary Theory & Criticism
Semester: 2nd
Submitted to: Department of English
M.K.Bhavnagar University
Modernism
• From late 90th century to early 20th century.• Set of cultural tendencies and arrangement of
associated cultural movement.• Victorian conventions were broken away.• Chris Baldick says:
“Modernist literature is characterized chiefly by a rejection of 19th-century traditions and of their consensus between author and reader.”
• Ezra Pound- famous modernist
• Many innovations in the fields of music, painting and literature.
• Modernists were self-conscious.
An Object
This thing, that hath a code and not a core,Hath set acquaintance where might be affections,And nothing nowDisturbeth his reflections.
-Ezra Pound
‘The Chess Players’ by ‘Fall of Icarus’ by Marcel Duchamp Pieter Bruegel
Post-Modernism
• Started in late 20th century.• It opposites the assumptions.• Rejects the difference between ‘high’ and
‘low’.• Challenges the idea of universality. • It extols plurality.• Doesn’t believe in neat end.• Kurt Vonnegut, John Barth, Thomas
Pynchon
“The difference between the right word and the nearly right word is the difference between lightning and
lightning bug.”
New-Historicism
• Developed in 1980s.• Stephen Greenblatt.• Basic idea: history
with literary text.• Parallel reading of
literary text and history.
Literary Text
Non Literary Text
“Text is historical and history is textual.”
-Michael Wallner
“(New Historicism) is combined interest in the textuality of history, the historicity of text.”
-Louis Montrose
New Historicism involves “an intensified willingness to read all of the textual traces of the past with the attention traditionally conferred only on literary text”
-Stephen Greenblatt• Foucault and idea of ‘episteme’.
Looked in the Past (New Historicism).mp4