Postmodern British Authors

Literary movement that emerged from the 1950's to the 1960's as a reaction to modernist

• Postmodern Literature

• Cartoon Literatue0

• Comic Literature

• Post Renaissance

Was postmodernism literature influenced by the Second World War?

• Yes

• No

• Maybe

What genre came before postmodern literature?

• Premodern

• Modern

• classic

Are these three authors an example of the postmodern literature?

James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf

• Yes

• No

• Maybe

What are the 5 characteristics of Postmodern Literature

• 1. Embrace of Randomness

  2. Playfulness

  3. Fragmentation

  4. Metafiction

  5. Intertextuality

• 1. Embrace of Craziness

  2. Playfulness

  3. Fragmentation

  4. Metafiction

  5. Intertextuality

• 1. Embrace of Randomness

  2. Liveness

  3. Fragmentation

  4. Metafiction

  5. Intertextuality

• 1. Embrace of Randomness

  2. Playfulness

  3. Fragmentation

  4. Metacognition

  5. Intertextuality

What is Metafiction?

• writers began to experiment with more meta elements in their novels and short stories, drawing attention to their work’s.

• writers began to experiment with more meta elements in their drawing attention to their work’s

• writers began to experiment with more beta elements in their novels and short stories, drawing attention to their work’s

• writers began to experiment with more meta elements in their novels and short stories, drawing attention to their lives and lifestyles

How many characteristcs does the Postmodern Literature have

• 5

• 6

• 4

• 3

What was another predominant subject in the Postmodern Literature?

• Social Standards

• Social Goals

• Social Mobility

• Social Income

Social Mobility novels were intended for which social classes'

• Usually for the northern working class too the southern middle class.

• Usually for the northern working class too the southern upper class.

• Usually for the northern working class.

• Usually for the southern middle class.

Who was the most inspired fictional cavalcade of social and cultural life in the 20th century?

• Angus Wilson

• Angus Thomas

• Malcolm Angus

• Marcel Lodge.