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Moderism. Modernism, Post-Modernism, and the Feminist Perspective Literature
is a driving, flexible, ideological force in culture. ...
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Dada." Literary Review Winter 2005: 166-172. This focuses ...
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Modernism, Post-Modernism, and the Feminist Perspective
Literature is a driving, flexible, ideological force in culture. It reflects society and the times in which the piece is written, just as society is then influenced by literature. Certain trends are associated with different periods throughout time. Before the 20th century, the literature world went through periods of Enlightenment as well as rejection of this idea, thus reflecting society at that point. During the 20th century, modernism described literature created before World War II. To The Lighthouse and A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, Ulysses by James Joyce, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, and The Awakening by Kate Chopin are examples of novels that demonstrate this modern style. This period of modernism ended in the mid-1940's, and was expanded into ideas of what is know known as post-modernism. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, 1984 by George Orwell and The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro exemplify this post-modern style. Although post-modern ideas branch off ideas of modernism, the two are vastly different theories of literature in the modern world.
The feminist perspective can serve to show the difference between modern and post-modern literature. Although feminist literature theories have remained coherent through modern and post-modern history, the way with which the ideas have been presented has changed with time. Before World War II feminism in literature was presented in a fragmented way, and as a tragic event, something to be lamented and mourned. Ideas were presented in a global, all-encompassing manner. In more recent prose this is not the case. Theories of feminism remain valuable in present literature; the difference is that in a post-modern world, small practices and local events that make no claim to universality, rather than global concepts, are chosen to show these theories, and there is a celebration of human nature and history.
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