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What are the major characteristic of modern age?
the characteristics of the modern poetry: Formal characteristics Open Form Free verse Discontinuous narrative Juxtaposition Intertextuality Classical allusions Borrowings from other cultures and languages Unconventional use of metaphor Metanarrative Fragmentation Multiple narrative points of view (parallax) [edit] Thematic characteristics Breakdown of social norms and cultural sureties Dislocation of meaning and sense from its normal context Valorization of the despairing individual in the face of an unmanageable future Disillusionment Rejection of history and the substitution of a mythical past, borrowed without chronology Product of the metropolis, of cities and urbanscapes Stream of consciousness Overwhelming technological changes of the 20th Century
How do you apply postmodern theories to literature?
postmodern theory is characterized by new philosophical beliefs about reality, truth and language. postmodern literture responds to these philosohies and postmodern literary elements namely questioanable narrator, magic realism, metafiction, temporal distortion, metanarrative and irony etc. now to apply postmodern theory on a piece of literature it is essential to find postmodern perspectives in literature. i applied this theory on a Pakistani novel, Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie and found questionable narrator, subjective truth, characters as social constructive self and some postmodern literary elements.
What are themes of modern life?
the characteristics of the modern poetry: Formal characteristics Open Form Free verse Discontinuous narrative Juxtaposition Intertextuality Classical allusions Borrowings from other cultures and languages Unconventional use of metaphor Metanarrative Fragmentation Multiple narrative points of view (parallax) [edit] Thematic characteristics Breakdown of social norms and cultural sureties Dislocation of meaning and sense from its normal context Valorization of the despairing individual in the face of an unmanageable future Disillusionment Rejection of history and the substitution of a mythical past, borrowed without chronology Product of the metropolis, of cities and urbanscapes Stream of consciousness Overwhelming technological changes of the 20th Century
