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Drawing on remarks by Umberto Eco, Hans Bertens, and Joseph Heller, it frames postwar cultural disintegration and the impossibility of “innocent” expression. 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Still there is a solution …  \nPostmodernism  \n…He can say \"As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly\". At this point, having avoided false innocence, having said clearly it is no longer possible to talk innocently, he will nevertheless say what he wanted to say to the woman: that he loves her in an age of lost innocence.  \n-Umberto Eco  \nPostmodernism  \n“Postmodern art simply is and must be experienced. Modernist art refers to a meaning hidden behind its surface and must be understood. Postmodern art presents itself as surface [while] modernist art claims depth behind that surface.”  \n-Hans Bertens  \nPostmodernism  \n“The antiwar and anti-government feelings in [my] book belong to the period following WorldWar II: the Korean War, the cold war of the Fifties. A general disintegration of belief took place then, and it affected Catch-22 in that the form of the novel became almost disintegrated. Catch-22 was a collage; if not in structure, then in the ideology of the novel itself…  \nPostmodernism  \n…Without being aware of it, I was part of a near-movement in fiction. While I was writing Catch-22, J. P. Donleavy was writing The Ginger Man, Jack Kerouac was writing On the Road, Ken Kesey was writing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Thomas Pynchon was writing V. , and Kurt Vonnegut was writing Cat's Cradle …  \nPostmodernism  \n…I don't think any one of us even knew any of the others. Certainly I didn't know them.Whatever forces were at work shaping a trend in art were affecting not just me, but all of us. The feelings of helplessness and persecution in Catch-22 are very strong in Pynchon and in Cat's  \nCradle.”  \n-Joseph Heller  \nPostmodernist Style  \n• Postmodernist works often reject many traditional literary conventions.  \n• Literary devices are not used to bring order but instead to deconstruct ideas  \n• Metafiction (unique plot devices)  \n• Fragmentated narrative (non-linear)  \n• Freely mixes “high art”with pop culture  \nPostmodernist Themes  \n• Contemporary life is seen as bleak and fragmented.  \n• Art is not seen as corrective to life’s issues; there is no attempt to fix things.  \n• Instead, postmodernist works celebrate or play with the fragmentation of life.  \n• Subjective experience is valued over objective knowledge.  \nThe Postmodern Trend ...  \nIn modernist texts, fragmentation is symbolic of the chaos of life itself; the author tries to resolve this chaos by putting everything in perspective.  \nIn postmodernism, fragmentation is still symbolic of chaos, but the author has no intention of overcoming this by trying to impose structure on the complexity of the contemporary world.","cbCailTws8FDdUbU","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailTws8FDdUbU","pdf",236801,17,"English","# Postmodernism\n## Postmodernist Style\n## Postmodernist Themes\n## The Postmodern Trend","[{\"question\":\"How is postmodernism different from modernist art, according to the notes?\",\"answer\":\"Modernist art is described as hiding meaning behind a surface and requiring understanding, while postmodern art is presented as surface and experienced directly.\"},{\"question\":\"What are common postmodernist style techniques listed in the notes?\",\"answer\":\"The notes highlight rejection of traditional conventions, deconstructive use of literary devices, metafiction, fragmented non-linear narrative, and free mixing of “high art” with pop culture.\"},{\"question\":\"What themes does the notes associate with postmodernist works?\",\"answer\":\"Postmodernist works are said to portray contemporary life as bleak and fragmented, value subjective experience over objective knowledge, and celebrate or play with fragmentation rather than trying to fix life’s problems.\"}]","Postmodernism - Overview of Style and Themes | PDF",1790159955,26]