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