Post Modernism And Its Influence On Society

16, 1952 in New York City. She received a BA from Adelphi University, then she attended

regards to the events that happened in this period, and the ability of both writers to convey

So all in all the writters are similar, but lets look at there storyies and text for more information...

Both authors use similar literary

Depression in Mental Illnesses The majority of people in this world seem to understand and get the basic feel of how things work. This meaning most people learn to eventually accept things how they are at a certain stage in their life and work with what they can work with. However, some individuals in this world tend to dwell on the past, overthink things, or have a fanatical desire for something or someone.

This set her apart as a unique, but ultimately too potent writer in a literary period that had not yet awakened to the more modern notions of feminism...the fine line between author, narrator, and heroine is crossed and it seems useless to view this work as independent from the author’s most intense convictions. (Smith).

She no longer wrote for any other reason except to reveal what she was feeling. Because of

She also wrote collections countless of poetry, even earning her the grand nomination of the

Going from long skirts and traditions the youth are beginning to radically change our culture creating controversy. This era is where many of our traditions that have never been questioned before are being put to the limits by our growing youth. We used to be a culture of women covering up, planned dates, horses and buggies and everyone attending church. The war is over and everything is changing, so the real question we must ask is, is it actually bad? First of all planned dating and seeming improper to mingle between the sexes is old and does not allow the youth to choose the right person that they want to spend the rest of their life with. Women throughout creation have always been forced to cover up and seem ‘ladylike’ but now the youth are showing that women have the freedom to act as they please. Finally, religion has always been something everyone believes but now with the new theory of evolution we should allow people to choose for themselves what they want. Therefore the youth are not merely destroying our

Both writers played parts in the Harlem Renaissance and spoke their minds. They stand for what is right and communicate it through their styles or writing, in poems and novels.

'It quickly emerged that the proper and unique area of competence of each art coincided with all that was unique to the nature of its medium. The task of self-criticism became to eliminate from the effects of each art any and every effect that might conceivably be borrowed from or by the medium of any other art. Thereby each art would be rendered 'pure', and in its 'purify' find the guarantee of its standards of quality as well as of its independence. 'Purity' meant self-definition, and the enterprise of self-criticism in the arts became one of self-definition, with a vengeance.'

Post-modernism follows and shares many of the same ideas as modernism. Though, at the same time, they differ in many ways. These distinctions can be seen in the two works of literature, “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller and “Glengarry Glen Ross” by David Mamet.

The political climate at the beginning of the 1940’s and the changes taking place all around the world drastically influenced the face of contemporary society. The invasion of Poland by Germany on 1st of September 1939 was the first stone thrown in the face of freedom of expression and liberty out of the many that followed for the next decades. The dawn of the Second World War was one of the premises that forced many European artists, pioneers par excellence in their field, through their French or German inherited status, to immigrate across the ocean. Due to the exile, the art centre also moved overseas, from Paris to New York, offering a new opportunity for American art to be the initiator in what was generally accepted as the new

Successfully marketing a product is a fundamental component in remaining competitive in the vicious dog-eat-dog world of business. The rise of postmodernism in society redefined what successful and adaptive marketing looks like and consequently it gave branding a whole new meaning and significance. Postmodernism means different things to different disciplines, yet the general consensus is that it is a contemporary cultural phenomenon (Brown 1996). The postmodern brand model enabled brands to have an identity that connects with its customers by presenting brands in an anthropological view via customer engagement promotions. The gradual domination of social media in western society enables organizations to market their brands to exist beyond

The distinction between modernism and postmodernism has never been a clear-cut dichotomy, and it probably never will be, and thus can best be interpreted as a continuum (Childs 2008: Malpas 2005). For brevity’s sake, I will not (and cannot) fully explore the complex intellectual debates that function as the foundations of modernism and postmodernism, as it is not this paper’s goal to fully explore the nuanced difference between modernism and postmodernism, but instead I will provide the basic concepts and features of each period, since these two genres are crux to understand McHale’s theory of dominants, but also to understand modernist and postmodernist fiction (cf. Herman 1991 for a more in-depth analysis of modernism versus postmodernism). The following paragraphs will largely be based on three works: Peter Childs’s Modernism (2008), Malpas’s Postmodernism (2005) and McHale’s contribution in the Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon (2013).