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Worksheetspostmodernism
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which of the following are not synonymous with Postmodernism?
eclectic approach
aleatory writing
parody
pastiche
surrealism
Select one personality in the list who was was not bracketed as literary 'high priest' of Modern Period ?
T.S.Eliot
James Joyce
Matthew Arnold
Ezra Pound
Wyndham Lewis
Which of the following best describe Modern Literature?
impressionism, subjectivity, stream of consciousness
omniscient external narration
documentary and prose like poems
fragmented forms, discontinuous narrative,collage of disparate materials
All of the above
The Wasteland is a collage of juxtaposed, incomplete stories or fragments of stories
True
False
The Dadaists wrote flowery, elaborate verses
True
False
Which movement promoted the practice of randomly inserting statements from newspapers and coffee table books to compose poems?
Romantic Period
Victorian Period
surrealism
Dadaism
Modernists lament fragmentation while postmodernists celebrate it
True
False
Pick out the phrase used by Ezra Pound to describe his poem The Cantos
Duck-back
Duck-bag
rag-bag
sack-bag
Which modernist architect declared that 'decoration is a crime'
Adolf Loo
Mies van Rohe
Le Corbusier
Martian poetry was a minor movement in British poetry in
1920s
1930s
1950s
1970s
Who delivered the influential Paper titled:'Modernity--an Incomplete Project'
Derrida
Jurgen Habermas
T.S. Eliot
Ezra Pound
Appropriation means...
A lesson that can be derived from a story or experience.
Borrowing and recontextualising artworks or imagery from artwork or popular culture.
Creating a theory or attitude that acts as a guiding principle for behaviour
Changing the machinery or working parts of something
Satire is...
when your expectations are met
the use of ridicule to challenge values
the feeling of being foolish
an Indonesian and Malaysian dish, containing peanuts
Pastiche refers to...
when an artist adds materials corrode or eat away the surface of (something)
a unit of liquid or dry capacity using for ceramic materials
an art movement from the 1800s
the borrowing and combing of aspects from different styles and/or cultures
Who, according to Habermas were the 'young conservatives'?
Wordsworth- Coleridge
Pope- Dryden
Tennyson--Arnold
Derrida--Foucauly
Postmodernism rejects 'grand narratives and promotes 'mininarratives'
True
False
