We're going to refer back to this book throughout the term, but for now, let's try to get a sense about what postmodernism is. On page 155-156, Jim Powell gives us a list of different ways that postmodernism can be viewed in 1998 (including licking the poisonous venom of the Colorado River toad). This is 17 years ago though. As you read this book, did you think of aspects of your own, contemporary culture that illustrate postmodernism? If not, how is contemporary culture different than the postmodern one? Are we in a post-postmodern era now? What should we call it?
Also, since we've read several stories by Kafka, what do you think about Powell's analysis of Kafka's fiction? Does it jibe w/ your own? How does Kafka fit w/in postmodernism (or modernism) in your eyes?
In Postmodernism for beginners we see that many artist and scientist expressed their minds through various works of art. whether it was through paintings or stories or sculptresses or science discovery, anyone of these things was how they, the artists and scientists, expressed themselves. In our era, i feel that we are more based on not the physical painting and sculpting of art but the advancement in technology. For example, the United States is the most advanced military country in the world. In the postmodern era it was based on the great scientist like Albert Einstein, or other psychological scientists seeing or viewing what the real reason why people were creating these things.
ReplyDeleteKafka as we know or could guess didn't have a great relationship with his father, and so he wrote his stories based on how he felt in his fathers home. In Metamorphoses we see he talks about Gregor being this huge bug in his father home who nobody likes but has to except it, the same probably in Kafkas life, where he felt as a outcast where his family juts had to except him, and his writings is an example of what the post modern era was, a person who expresses his mind through literature or science