Post+Modernist+Literature-5th

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 Postmodernism "cannot on its own principles ultimately justify itself any more than can the various metaphysical overviews against which the postmodern mind has defined itself." -Richard Tarnas, American Philosopher

"Postmodernism is defined as a general and wide-ranging term which is applied to literature, art, philosophy, architecture, fiction, and cultural and literary criticism, among others. Postmodernism is largely a reaction to the assumed certainty of scientific, or objective, efforts to explain reality."

Hello all,

My name is Ray Bradbury and I am an award-winning postmodern author. Thank you for taking the time to study this wonderful era and allowing yourself to be immersed in the very essence that I am most passionate about. For more information about me please visit my website. [|http://www.raybradbury.com]

Happy studies, Ray Bradbury

To view a video of me on __Fahrenheit 451__, visit this website.

**HISTORY OF THE POSTMODERN ERA: 1960- present** //The "pressure cooker of conformity explodes in the 1960s and 1970s..." //  For more information about the history of the postmodern era, visit this website.
 * post World War II and the birth of the Cold War
 * fear of nuclear war
 * Civil Rights Movement
 * Women's Liberation Movement
 * Watergate Scandal

**LET'S GET MORE SPECIFIC...**
 * Civil Rights Movement and Women's Liberation Movement provoked
 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%;">agressive actions
 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%;">the desire for equality
 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%;">rebellious attitudes
 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%;">exploration of individual identity
 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%;">Watergate Scandal provoked
 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%;">questioning of the "set truth"

<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">media type="custom" key="4501298" <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">The postmodern era was a powerfully influential time for me and my peers. Poets such as Maya Angelou and Sylvia Plath, short story writer Flannery O'Connor, playright Arthur Miller and novelist George Orwell were all affected by this period. I believe that Orwell’s words below can give a good idea of how postmodernism affected our literary styles: <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">“The Spanish war and other events in 1936-37 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it.” <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;"> All of us were directly affected by the events that took place during this time. The resulting alterations can be seen in our novels and poems in the following years.

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