ENG280H1 Lecture : ENG280 - November 28.docx

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Changes in literature signal changes in the world: hence zizek talking about the spirit of the world in literature. As an artistic movement, postmodernism was really just a reaction to modernism. It was doing the opposite of what the modernists did. The second key feature is that postmodernism is the erosion of the distinction between high culture and popular culture. With commercialisation and constant reproduction there isn"t really anyway that we could continue to do literary criticism the way it was originally done because there isn"t a distinction between what discipline it should be a part of. The reason there isn"t literary criticism is because there isn"t really literature anymore because we don"t distinguish between philosophy, literature, sociology etc. Because the "high cannon" has collapsed we can talk about anything and therefore there is no distinction between the disciplines and therefore there is no longer any sense of "literary criticism" Spells out the characteristic "moves" of postmodernism.

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