POSTMODERNISM AUTHORS

1.Three half -satiric novels by J.G Farrell

• Troubles, The Siege of Krishnapur, The Singapore Grip

• The Lord of the Rings, Narnia

• The Beauty and the Beast

2.Crowded comic saga about the generation born as an Indian independence dawned

• British in India

• Midnight´s Children (1981)

• The Day Of the Scorpion

3.While modernist writers mourned the loss of order, postmodern writers revel in it, often using tools like black humor, wordplay, irony, and other techniques of playfulness to dizzy readers and muddle the story.

• TRUE

• FALSE

4.Who are the precursors of the Postmodern Literature?

• William Shakespeare, Raj Quartet

• Farrell, William Shakespeare, Raj Quartet

• James Joyce, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Wolf

5.Postmodernism was prevalent from the mid-twentieth century.

• FALSE

• TRUE

Postmodernism was based on an unscientific, irrational, thought process, and it rejected logical thinking.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Example of Postmodern literature include

• Gravity´s Rainbow by Billie Elliot

• Gravity´s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

• Gravity´s Rainbow by Thomas Pinchon

The Author of the Day of Scorpion

• Virginia Wolf

• Raj Quartet

• T.S. Eliot

Anthony Powell´s novel sequence of

• A Dance to the Music of the time

• A Dance to the Music of time

• A Dance to the Music

Who continued the tradition of depicting emotional and psycological nuance that Murdoch felt was dangerously neglected in the 20th Century novels.

• Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Taylor , Barbara Pym

• Elizabet Bogen, Elizabeth Taylor , Barbara Pym

• Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Taylor , Barbara Pim