POSTMODERNISM

• Review and pre-quiz (15)• check papers/organization

(10)• Choose clock partners (5)• Read letters (clock partner)

(5)• Lecture Part 1 (15)• Review with clock partner (5)• Lecture Part 2 (15)• Discuss with clock partner

(5)Exit Card (5)

• to understand some of the elements and characteristics of Post Modernism

• to evaluate how the use of POMO techniques impacts the reader's experience of this text and how they impact the overall effectiveness of the text 

AGENDA:

OBJECTIVE:

POST MODERNISM(AND, NO WE’RE NOT WATCHING PULP FICTION. BUT I CAN BRING IN RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARKS IF YOU WANT.

A work by Banksy – a contemporary Post Modern artist

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• What is self-reference?

• Watch the film clip. • Look for examples

of• Irony• Appropriation• Self-Reference

Can I teach Post-Modernism using a Microsoft Product? Is that even allowed?

Teacher

“DOUBLE RAINBOW! OH MY GOD!”- THAT DOUBLE RAINBOW GUY

People in the area begin tweeting about it – many referring to the “double rainbow guy”

• Characteristics of Post Modern Literature: • Self-reference• Irony• Black Humor• Disruption of archetypal

narrative

• Some influential POMO Authors:

1.Jorge Luis Borges2.Thomas Pynchon3.Kurt Vonnegut4.Tim O’Brien

According to The Electronic Labyrinth Post Modern literature involves, “the dissolution of distinctions, the merging of subject and object, self and other. This is a sarcastic playful parody of western modernity and the "John Wayne" individual and a radical, anarchist rejection of all attempts to define, reify or re-present the human subject.

WHAT IS POST MODERNISM?

FROM MUMBO JUMBO

BY ISHMAEL REED

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HOW IS TTTC A POMO TEXT? -

WITH THANKS TO PROFESSOR PIERCE FOR THE INFORMATION AND ANALYSIS REGARDING TERROR VS. WAR NARRATIVES…..

“It inverts, subverts, the archetypal war narrative…” (Pierce)

FIRST, WE’LL LOOK AT ANOTHER GENRE TO COMPARE

• The Terror narrative• Narrative: a story.• Archetype: original: something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies (Wordnet).

• Subvert: to turn upside down or change.

TERROR NARRATIVE: SOMETHING UNCIVILIZED, BEASTLY, ENTERS OUR WORLD. THE

PROTAGONIST MUST FIGHT IT AND PREVAIL.

Uncivilized World

• Antagonist:

Civilized World • Protagonist:

ARCHETYPAL WAR NARRATIVE – “THE WAR STORY IS IN FACT, THE INVERSION OF THE

TERROR NARRATIVE” (PIERCE)

Uncivilized World

• Wartime:• Enters a world of chaos,

violence and uncertainty.

Civilized World

• Soldier:• Leaves world of

normalcy and order

• As a result, he is transformed, although usually this change imparts him with a sense of nobility and solidified manhood.

Typical War Narratives

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16805The Things They Carried is a postmodern text because it inverts the terror narrative.

True or False?

In a war narrative, there is an array of typical motifs1. the noble example2.the test of courage3.the battle as initiation4.the collective adventure of the platoon5.the disjunctive return to the civilian world.

HOW DOES O'BRIEN INVERT THESE MOTIFS USING SOME OF THESE TECHNIQUES? HOW DOES HE MAKE THE TEXT

POSTMODERN?

Typical features of War Novels

1. the noble example2. the test of courage3. the battle as initiation4. the collective adventure

of the platoon5. the disjunctive return to

the civilian world

Post-modern techniques

• Temporal disorder, disrupting the chronology of the novel, retelling the past and providing deep details from different perspectives;  • Pastiche, which arises from the feeling that everything has been done before, so writers can do nothing but paraphrase;  • Fragmentation, suggesting that the wholeness and completion associated with traditional stories is not preferred anymore;  • Looseness of association, carrying the meaning of ‘no logic’. The text is usually put together in a loose order;   • Schizophrenia, due to which a character’s mind is split into several pieces or segments;  • Vicious circles, appearing in fiction when both the text and the outer world blend, so that we cannot separate one from the other;

MEET WITH CLOCK PARTNER TO REVIEW

SIDE BY SIDE COMPARISON

Archetypal or Typical War Narrative

1. the noble example2. the test of courage3. the battle as

initiation4. the collective

adventure of the platoon

5. the disjunctive return to the civilian world

The Postmodern Version

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16805 Which of these is NOT an example of a postmodern technique as present in The Things They Carried?a.Tim O’Brien goes to war and is changed by it. b.Tim O’Brien is a character in his own fictional workc.O’Brien includes elements usually found in non-fiction, such as a letter from a fictional characterd.The author addresses the reader directly. .

THE THINGS THEY CARRIED

• O’Brien blurs the line between truth and fiction purposefully.

• He leaves the reader to question, reflect and wonder about what she has read.

“In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it’s safe to say that in a true war story nothing is ever absolutely true.”

Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried (p 88)

"Good movies -- and good novels, too -- do not depend upon 'accurate portrayals.' Accuracy is irrelevant. Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Who knows? Who cares? It's a great piece of art. It moves us. It makes us wonder, makes us gape; finally, it makes us look inward at ourselves." (Texas Monthly, Nov. 2002. Qtd. )

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16805 Take the quiz. Try to get your group’s ship across the screen first!

Exit Card:1.What are some of the post-modern elements present in this work by Banksy?2.How is O’Brien using post-modernism in our text?