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1. “NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF
SAN MARTIN"
COURSE: BRITISHANDAMERICAN LITERATURE
TEA CHER:LIC.MG.FREDDY SILVA MURRIETA
MEMBERS:
DOMÍNGUEZ PÉREZ MANIXS ELI
LOPEZ CHOCLOTE EUGENIA DOLIBETH
RENGIFO PINEDO CARLOS FERNANDO

3. QUOTATION
By William Faulkner
The supreme wisdom is
to have dreams big
enough not to lose sight
of them while pursuing.

4. ◦ The Post-modernist period occurred directly after the
Modernist period.
◦ Events that inspired this movement were the end of World War
II, the Korean War, Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the Civil
Rights movement.
◦ Postmodernism works were characterized by multiple qualities.
With advances in technology and rights, Americans could better define who they
were. Americans now saw themselves as a major world power because of their
atomic bombs.
Postmodernism focused on the present and the future. It was and is an ongoing,
evolving period of American literature.

5. Reason , logic, and specialized
tools , human beings are likely to
change themselves and their
societies for the better.
Postmodern period is
characterized by broad
skepticism or relativism
There is an objective
natural reality
All aspects of human
psychology are completely socially
determined.
Human beings can acquire
knowledge based on
evidence or principles that
are known with certainty.
HOW IS POST-MODERNISM CHARACTERIZED?

6. DIFFERENCES/SIMILARITIES BETWEEN
MODERNISM ANDPOST-MODERNISM
The main difference between them is that
modernism is characterized by the radical
break from the traditional forms of prose and
verse.
Postmodernism is characterized by the self-conscious
use of earlier styles and conventions.
Both explore fragmentariness in narrative-
and character-construction.
Both explore subjectivism, turning from
external reality to examine inner states of
consciousness.

7. POST - MODERNISM IN
LITERATURE
Characterized by the use of metafiction,
unreliable narration, self-reflexivity,
intertextuality, and which often thematizes
both historical and political issues.
Serves as a reaction to the supposed
stylistic and ideological limitations of
modernist literature and the radical
changes
This style of experimental literature
emerged strongly in the United States in
the 1960s and 1970s
Postmodern literature represents a
break from the 19th century
realism.

8. POST-MODERN AUTHORS
ERNEST HEMINGWAY WilliamFaulkner EugeneO’Neil

9. MAJORWORKS
Party” (“The Sun Also Rises”, 1926)
Farewell to Arm, 1929
To have and not to have, 1937
For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940
Green hills of Africa, 1935
The old man and the sea, 1951
Paris was a party (“A moveable Feast”, 1964)
• American narrator whose work.
• Considered a classic in 20th century literature
• He has exerted a notable influence due to the sobriety of
its style as well as the tragic elements and the portrait of
the time it represents.
• He received the Nobel Prize in 1954

10. WilliamFaulkner (1897-1962)
MAJORWORKS
The Sound and the Fury
As I lay Dying
He was an American novelist and short-story writer who was
Awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature.
William Faulkner is among the great novelists who, in the
interwar period, promoted with his work the renewal of
narrative techniques and the overcoming of realist and
naturalist tendencies.

11. MAJORWORKS
EugeneO’Neil (1888-1953)
American dramatist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in
1936.
He studied theater writing techniques at Harvard University, and premiered
his first works in a theater group of which he was a part.
He is considered the leading playwright in the United States.
Long Day’s Journey into Night
Beyond the Horizon
Anna Christie
Strange Interlude

12. SUMMARY
Postmodernism is one of the most controversial movements in art and design
history. Over two decades, from about 1970 to 1990, Postmodernism
shattered established ideas about art and design, bringing a new self-
awareness about style itself.
Post modernism works are seen as a reaction against Enlightenment thinking
and Modernist approaches to literature. Postmodern literature is characterized
by heavy reliance on techniques like fragmentation, paradox, and
questionable narrators, and is often (though not exclusively) defined as a style
or trend which emerged in the post–World War II era. Postmodern literature,
like postmodernism as a whole, tends to resist definition or classification as a
"movement".