PHILIPPINE NORMAL UNIVERSITY

National Center for Teacher Education

Collge of Graduate Studies and Teacher Education Research

Name: CALUBAYAN, Francis S. G202000041

Course Title: LITT-507 Contemporary Anglo-American Fiction
Date: 31 October 2020

WORKSHEET NO. 1

Subject/Area MODERNISM POSTMODERNISM

1. Timeline  Modernism started in 1914 as  Started at around 1940’s,
feedback to the happenings flourished in 1960 after the
of World War 1 and World War 2.
continued until the beginning
of World War 2 in the early
1940s.
2. Definition  Pertains to the rejection of  A period that uses
the past as people are combinations of
exploring for a new/unique conventional styles to
way of expression. represent something new
—a simulacrum.
3. Focus  Objectification of knowledge  Obsession to
through Science. Comercialism
 Writers focused on capitalism  Truth are socially
instead of innovation of constructed.
technology, hence, this led  Deals with the questions of
individuals to become subjectivity.
alienated and alone.  Isolation and
 Focuses on interiority disconnectedness
 Proliferation of Meaning
 Focuses on extriority.
4. Styles  Imagism  Metafictional Narrative
 Stream of Consciousness as  Some texts were parodied
in James Joyce Dubliners.  Hybridity
 Mimicry
 Patiche/Intertextuality
5. Authors  Emily Dickenson  Noah Isenberg
 Ezra Pound  Jasper Ffored
 Virginia Woolf  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
 T.S. Eliot  V.S. Naipaul
 E.E. Cummings