Schematic Differences between
Modernism and Postmodernism | |
Modernism
|
Postmodernism
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romanticism/symbolism
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paraphysics/Dadaism
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purpose
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play
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design
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chance
|
hierarchy
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anarchy
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matery, logos
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exhaustion, silence
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art object, finished word
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process, performance
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distance
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participation
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creation, totalization
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deconstruction
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synthesis
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antithesis
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presence
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absence
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centering
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dispersal
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genre, boundary
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text, intertext
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semantics
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rhetoric
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paradigm
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syntagm
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hypotaxis
|
parataxis
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metaphor
|
metonymy
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selection
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combination
|
depth
|
surface
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interpretation
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against interpretation
|
reading
|
misreading
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signified
|
signifier
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lisible (readerly)
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scriptible
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narrative
|
anti-narrative
|
grande histoire
|
petite histoire
|
master code
|
idiolect
|
symptom
|
desire
|
type
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mutant
|
genital, phallic
|
polymorphous
|
paranoia
|
schizophrenia
|
origin, cause
|
difference-difference
|
God the Father
|
The Holy Ghost
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Metaphysics
|
irony
|
determinacy
|
indeterminacy
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transcendence
|
immanence
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(SOURCE: Hassan "The Culture of Postmodernism" Theory, Culture, and Society, V 2 1985, 123-4.)
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