ENGL 2P70 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Postmodern Literature, Metafiction, Post-Structuralism
18 Mar 2017
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Postmodernism and poststructuralism aren"t the same but they are often associated with each other. Points of interest/argument: bertens makes note of the institutionalization of the postmodern in the 1980s (8-9), and the idea of the. Postmodern world (9); the common denominator for all postmodernisms is the deeply felt loss of faith in our ability to represent the real (10); It goes from being a term used primary by critiques of art and literature to becomes a widespread thing spoke about in the academy and discourse our world has now been labeled as a postmodernist world. Deeply felt loss of faith in our ability to represent the real (10); - one of the best definitions. We no longer feel capable of representing the real the real we understand as being constructed and yet even in its construction we have lost the ability to even think we can construct the real.
