ENGL 3670 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Italo Calvino, Kurt Vonnegut, Angela Carter

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 3670
• Professor: Jade Ferguson

Document Summary

A reaction against modernism, against a naive and earnest confidence in progress, and against confidence in objective or scientific truth. A playful acceotance of surfaces and superficial style. Kurt vonnegut, italo calvino, vladimir nabokov, angela carter, salman rushdie. Hired by quebec to write report on post-modernism. More about the language than the story and it"s characters. Post-modernist a result of of modern day lifestyles. The distinctions between high and low culture. The integration of the reader into the meaning making process.