COMPARISON OF

MODERN ERA AND

POSTMODERN ERA
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OBJECTIVES
Introduction to Modern era

Modern Authors

Ernest Hemingway

Introduction to Postmodern Era

John Hawkes

Modern Era vs Postmodern Era

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INTRODUCTION TO MODERN
ERA

 Lasted between the late nineteenth century and early

twentieth century
 Started by Industrialization and fueled by Urbanization
 Key Characteristics: Individualism, Experimentation,
Absurdity, Symbolism, Formalism
 Influenced by the World War I
 Written in first person
 Stories were a stream of consciousness

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MORDEN
AUTHORS

David Herbert
James Joyce Ernest Hemingway
Lawrence

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 ERNEST
HEMINGWAY

 American novelist born on 21st July,1899

 Interest in writing began in Highschool
 Worked for a newspaper in Kansan, at the age of
seventeen
 Served in World War I as an ambulance driver
 Published his first book in 1925, "In Our Times"
 Published "The Sun Also Rises" in 1926- It deal with a
bunch of expatriates travelling through France and Spain
 These books brought him into the limelight

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 ERNEST HEMINGWAY- CONTINUED

 Hemmingway used to travel often for big game hunting, deep-sea fishing, bullfighting, and skiing.
These experiences are further depicted in his work.
 "The Sun Also Rises" integrates the experience of war and travelling-bull fighting, and deep-sea
fishing
 Hemingway drew on his experience as a soldier in "A Farewell To Arms" to create a bleak yet lyrical
novel of immense impact; combing war with a love story.
 War experience in Spain documented in, "For Whom The Bell Tolls"(1940s)
 Hemingway died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound the head on 2nd July 1961.

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 POSTMODERN
ERA

 A late twentieth century movement

 Characteristics: broad skepticism, subjectivism, relativism, general
suspicion of reason
 Literature with heavy reliance on paradox, fragmentation, and questionable
narrators
 Influenced by World War II

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 John Hawks Jean
Baudrillard Robert Coover

POSTMODER
N AUTHORS
JOHN HAWKES
John Hawkes was born on 17th
August 1925.
Attended Harvard University
Took a break to serve as an ambulance
driver during World War II in Italy and
Germany; and then returned to
complete his B.A
Hawkes' debut novel was: "The
Cannibal". It explores signs of a future
apocalypse among the ruins of postwar
Germany.
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 Received critical acclaim for "The Line Twig" (1961)

 Hawkes suggests that "While we outwardly repel it, we subconsciously long for thrills of
violence and possible death which we normally experience vicariously while reading a detective
novel.”
 Second Skin (1964), Blood Oranges (1974), (death, sleep, and the Traveller" (1974)
 Hawkes died of a stroke during a heart bypass surgery at the age of 72, 15th May 1998

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 MODERN ERA VS POSTMODERN
ERA

MODERN POSTMODERN
Objective, theoretical Subjective

Seriousness Irony, playfulness

Believes in Grand theory-combining explanations in history, Rejects the totalizing of theories

culture, and science to represent all knowledge and explain
everything.

Believes there is an abstract truth of life Believes there is no universal truth

Influenced by first World War Influenced by second World War

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