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A 9 page paper on Thomas Pynchon's well-known work. The writer notes that while the novel has characteristics of both modernism and postmodernism, its postmodern tendencies predominate in its strongly apocalyptic worldview. Bibliography lists 6 sources including book.
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seemed to demand for an appreciation of their works; and at the same time, its slant seems to be significantly different. This paper will examine Pynchons work in the light
of both modernism and postmodernism, and render a decision on one side or the other. MODERNISM: The modernist movement received its name in the early 1890s from Rub?n Dario,
but the term did not come into common usage until the 1920s. George Perkins, et al, defines it as broadly covering "a diversity of innovative tendencies [such as] a desire
to escape or reformulate the past, a radical critique of traditional metaphysics, philosophic and cultural relativism, an antiromantic concept of subject, artistic awareness and self-determination, reliance on symbolistic techniques, structural
and thematic irony, and linguistic innovation" (Perkins, et al, 721). In real English, what does that mean? It means that in the early part of this century, particularly in
the years around World War I, writers became disenchanted with the way of looking at life that had satisfied the previous generation. They realized that society, instead of being static,
changed rapidly, and they embraced that change, pushing it, in fact, to the edge of unintelligibility. Through the development of psychoanalysis, writers and artists recognized that much more existed under
the surface than was accessible through the conscious mind, and that there were ways to evoke feeling through words without flat statements. For this reason, some modernist works actually came
with annotations so their less literate readers could understand what the writers were talking about. Modernists also felt that culture up to that point had been founded on erroneous assumptions
-- assumptions based on nationalism, class and ethnic bigotry, and sentimentality -- and they determined to not only purge these from their own writing but from their culture as well.
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