Briti kirjandus 20.-21. sajand kordamisküsimused vastustega
Success stories of millionaires.
`The swinging Sixties' and `the sagging Seventies'.
13. The politics and poetics of Postmodernism. Resistance to interpretations. Play with
language, genre, character, `the true' and `the real'. The role of media and ideology.
Differences between post-war and postmodern fiction; postmodernism and modernism.
The politics and poetics of Postmodernism Lyotard 'The postmodern condition', Ihab Hassan,
Susan Sontag, deliberatley less unified, less obviously masterful, more playful and anarchic,
more concerned with the process of unerstanding than pleasures of artistic finish/unity, less
inclined to hold a narrative together, more resistant to a certain interpretation
The role of media and ideology. Humanist book-culture--technological stimulation of
consciousness.
Post war vs postmodern
· Ethical, individualist existentialism, humanism vs skeptical, anti humanist attitudes