Criticism - Modernism

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Nonrepresentational textual instability[pic 4][pic 5]

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Intertextuality [pic 9]

Hyper reality marginality referentiality hypertextuality [pic 10][pic 11][pic 12][pic 13]

1 Simulacrum 1 Echolalia

2 Mise en Abyme 2 Paralogism

3 countermemoralising

analysis

1 Paratext

2 Liminality

1 mixing

2 pastiche

3 Hybridity

4 Allusion

1 Readerly text

2 Writerly text

1- post modernism

A general mid twentieth century term employed to describe a Variety of artistic transformations which rely on nonrepresentational and textual techniques such as marginality , referentiality , hyper reality , intertextuality , mixing , Hybridity, pastiche and hypertextuality .

- Its mid twentieth century artistic movement which focuses in nonrepresentational and textual instability .

2- Hyperreality :-

A term created by the French post modern philosopher Jean Baudrillard to depict an imaginary world invented by the authors and readers through literary text .

- An imaginary world that is created by the author and the reader at the same time .

- Hyperreality has three features :-

A- Simulacrum B- Paralogism C- countermemoralising analysis

3- Simulacrum :-

A term coined by the French philosopher and literary critic Jean Baudrillard to donate the fusion of reality and imagination in an imaginary world created by hyper reality .

- A mixture of reality and imagination in a world of Hyperreality .

- The reality is made inside the world of imagination .

4- Paralogism :-

The use of any technique which proves the disunity of a text . A postmodern term referring to all strategies used for unsettling the truth , meaning , language and voice within any literary discourse .

- Any technique used to negate the meaning of a text

5- Countermemoralising analysis :-

Any analysis which does not reach specific conclusions and definite meaning

- Any kind of analysis which proves that the text has no form

6- Paratext :-

A post modern neologism which entails all minor elements related to a text : introduction , conclusion , notes , ect . Postmodernists foreground such features , giving them prominence and emphasizing their function within the signification process .

- It means all the miner features of the text such as introduction , conclusion, graph logical devices

7- Liminality :-

A postmodern term which describes the search for multiple underlying meanings without giving preference to any .

- A search for an indirect and miner meaning of the text

8- Echolalia :-

A postmodern notion whereby each word indefinitely echoes and mirrors the others inside a text .

- Each words echoes the other

- If we omit any word you will lose the meaning , we can't ever remove a word

9- Mise en Abyme :-

A postmodern device whereby each part of the same text constantly echoes or mirrors the other .

- Each parts of a text reflects the other parts of a text

10- Intertextuality :-

The act of mutual dependence between a text and other texts .

- The interdependence among text

- Which means that all kind of literature depends on each other . Each text may reminds you with another text .

- Instability has four types mixing , pastiche ,Hybridity , and Allusion .

11- Mixing :-

The use of different kind of literature at the same time

12- Pastiche :-

The use of unrelated material in order to create a parody

- The main difference between pastiche and mixing is that mixing is only related to literature novel , poetry , but pastiche is anything comes into your mind advisement , song .

- Pastiche describes unrelated material but in mixing all of them is related .

13- Hybridity :-

The state of interchangeable flow of different cultures .

- The use of two different culture

14- Hypertextuality :-

A text connected by links which allow the reader to come up with multiple interpretations .

- A kind of text which depends on links to allow the readers different choices inside the same text .

- It was a term created after the first invention of computer .

- This kind of literature is mainly created to be written and read on the computer screen .

- This is a kind of electronic literature .

- The idea of hypertextuality is related to two more terms :-

15- Readerly text :- ( lisible