Hassan’s essay makes several connections between Modernism and Postmodernism.\u00a0\u00a0He also attempts to\u00a0create a divide between the two genres: “Postmodernism may be a response, direct or oblique, to the Unimaginable which Modernism glimpsed only in its most prophetic moments” (23).\u00a0 I think that the “Unimaginable” Hassan describes stems from a breakdown in communication.\u00a0 He\u00a0writes of an indescribable\u00a0feeling of fear, the familiar\u00a0“litany of disasters,” that comes from the breakdown of language and the discontinuous narratives on which our society is built.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Modernism also emphasized fragmented forms, but unlike the Postmodernists, they found this fragmentation tragic.\u00a0 Faulkner’s writing moved away from a fixed narrative point-of-view long before Postmodernism became a literary movement.\u00a0 The difference is in the disposition of the Modern vs. Postmodern author.\u00a0 Faulkner\u00a0lamented the\u00a0fragmentation of humanity, whereas Postmodernism chooses to\u00a0glorify it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One of the Postmodern preoccupations is with the failure of communication and the inability to reconcile mutiple, contradictory\u00a0narratives.\u00a0 Thus we are left with an abstract, fragmented string of narratives.\u00a0 Cage attempts to embody this fragmentation in his short story.\u00a0 He intentionally makes it difficult for the reader to follow any single narrative by randomly changing the text.\u00a0 Sometimes he keeps the text the same for a particular narrative, giving the reader a false sense of security.\u00a0 Eventually the text for each narrative changes, causing the reader to become lost in the strand of narratives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hassan’s essay makes several connections between Modernism and Postmodernism.\u00a0\u00a0He also attempts to\u00a0create a divide between the two genres: “Postmodernism may be a response, direct or oblique, to the Unimaginable which Modernism glimpsed only in its most prophetic moments” (23).\u00a0 I think that the “Unimaginable” Hassan describes stems from a breakdown in communication.\u00a0 He\u00a0writes of an … Continue reading The Modern\/Postmodern Divide<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-2-short-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2009\/660\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2009\/660\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2009\/660\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2009\/660\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2009\/660\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2009\/660\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2009\/660\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2009\/660\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2009\/660\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2009\/660\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}