Modernism

Postmodernist Elements in Some of the Short Stories
of John Barth and Jorge Louis Borges (Labyrinth)
inclined(p) By: Sirwan Alipour
Course: Literary Orientations
Taught By: Dr. Rajabi

Introduction:
To spoil launched on my paper, first I have to tell a word or two around Modernist literature, then wrench my lines through a definition of Postmodernist art and then get the whole project underway. In Modernist literature the writers transgress away with the traditional ways of story-telling and linear plots, rather they position such(prenominal) devices as broken chronology, stream of consciousness, fantastic realism, inside monologues and extreme subjectivities in point of view. The themes of art in this result (the first half of the 20th century), are subject matters such as secular versus religious topics or using acquisition as standard for validity vis-à-vis tradition.
Postmodern literature is employ to those works of art that were produced roughly after the Second reality War. In this type of art the attitudes of the author move a step away from those of the Modernism. The basic assumptions of most Postmodernists are those of the french Existentialists, Albert Camus and Sartre, who argued that we live in an absurd world whose meanings are unknowable to us. We therefore know nothing more than we exist.



( Abrams, A glossary of Literary Terms)
Some of the Postmodernists like Borges contend that there may be a God and the Universe may healthful make some sense in a indisputable way, but it is so big and it is so far beyond our comprehension that we will never understand its logic or our place in it.
In the process of this paper, first I will take up the subject of Borges Labyrinths- a very amazing collection of short stories including the one we read in the trimester: The Garden of Forkimg Paths. I will then talk about a little novel by John Barth: The vagrant Opera and the short novella we read during the semester: Lost in the Funhouse, after which, with a peroration, I...If you want to get a profuse essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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