The packet first defines what the postmodern era is and explains how these claims prove this is the era we are living in today. His first claim is that the ideas of progress, rationality, and scientific objectivity in the past are no longer accepted because they don’t take cultural differences into account. There are less […]
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Bildungsroman is a popular genre of literature that focuses on the social and psychological maturity of its protagonist. It is popularly known today as a coming-of-age story, but the name derives from the German word bildungs which means formation and roman which means novel. A bildungsroman novel typically follows a young character from innocence to […]
The twentieth century not only marked a new beginning in the social, political and economic world, but it was a time of change in the art world. In the following century, new ideas and concepts emerged on how to represent the world around us, moving away from the traditional values and techniques adopted from the […]
As the 1890s rolled in, there was a shift in the popular literary genre from realism to modernism. Modernism was a new way of thinking for it entailed showing the reality of things. Common trends within books, that defined modernism, were an atmosphere of pessimism and the characters turning out to be something different than […]