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rejects: rigid genre distinctions,
supports: pastiche (diff elements together), parody, magical realism, irony, self-consciousness, fragmentation ambiguity. meta narrative |
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| denies absolute "truths" about the world. "self" as a separate, singular, and coherent. everyone sees a text a diff way |
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| opposites, often arranged in a hierarchy. desconstruct assumptions which produce illusions. |
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a state of society from about around 1945 to the present. It is self reflexive and involves fragmentation and decentralization.
Walter Benjamin's recognition of the |
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the second sex -beauvoir
a room of ones own -woolf
the madwoman in the attic -gilbert and gubar |
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| The pioneers of Post-colonialism concerned themselves with the social and cultural effects of colonization. all cultures equal. *Ambivalence towards authority, Colonial alienation, Cultural relativism. This means that the colonialists’ defilement of another culture is socially, morally and politically incorrect. struggle for independence, conflicting interests, customs in need of rehabiltation, natives vs colonists |
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| Colonialism is about the dominance of a strong nation over another weaker one. education, danger, religion ext. dehumanizes culture, fragmented cultures, ranks, rejection of elements |
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| written by elite, oppressed, we have to recreate history |
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| father of deconstruction. the structure cannot be understood without understanding its genesis. |
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| Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar |
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| wrote the maxwoman in the attic, studied victorian literature in a feminist way. rejected the 'angel' or the 'monster' idea |
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| wrote the second sex. feminist. woman's oppression, woman are the 'other'.. stereotypes made by men to say they dont understand women and to group race, class, and relgion. |
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| The Madwoman in the Attic |
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| by gilbert and gubar, theme about how women are either the angel or the monster.. both must be destroyed |
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| by beauvior, womens oppression.. women are the other, and are stereotyped by men. not understood ext |
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| writing about writing inside the text. postmodernism. gives the author control |
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| opposite of formalism/new criticism.. what the reader thinks is important. reader gives real experience to a text |
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| paradoxs 2 opposites.. real life vs fantasy. shows an idea in a new way. garcia marquez. the supernatural, irony to authors perspective |
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| magical realism, celebrates the body, the senses, and the relations between humans. through humor and chaos |
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| stripped to its most basic features, post wwII, bridge between modernism and postmodernism. excludes the pictorial, illusionistic and fictive in favor of the literal. reader should take sides from hints in text. response to meta fiction. rejects emotion. |
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wrote “Simulacra and Simulation”
interactions between symbols, society and reality. stage 1: pre modern, stage 2: industrial revolution stage 3: postmodern. contemporary media (good vs good?), exchange value (money not usefulness), urbanization (seperates humans from world), landuage and ideology (obscures reality in politics. post modern post structuralism. denies reality |
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| One of Star Wars, One of Doom |
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| trample the deads, hurdle the weak |
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| st lucys home for girls raised by wolves |
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| karen russel. magical realism |
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| george sanders. satire. aunt returns from the dead. |
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| In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried |
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| minimalism. cathedral. popular mechanics |
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| how i contemplated the world.. |
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| what you pawn i will redeem |
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| shermie alexie. magical realism |
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| those who walk away from omelas |
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| robert coover. post modernism |
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| charlotte perkins gilman. postmodernism |
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| donald bartheleme. post modernism |
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| donald bartheleme. post modernism |
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| vladimir nabokov. post structuralism |
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| vladamir nabokov. oist structuralism |
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| the handsomist drown man in the world |
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| garcia marquez. magical realism |
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