LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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A term used to describe contemporary cultural production
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A literary movement concerned with extreme self-reflexivity
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An attempt to break down the barriers between high and low culture
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -postmodernism, also spelled post-modernism, in Western philosophy, a late 20th-century movement characterized by broad skepticism, subjectivism, or relativism; a general suspicion of reason; and an acute sensitivity to the role of ideology in asserting and maintaining political and economic power.
Detailed explanation-2: -A general and wide-ranging term which is applied to literature, art, philosophy, architecture, fiction, and cultural and literary criticism, among others. Postmodernism is largely a reaction to the assumed certainty of scientific, or objective, efforts to explain reality.
Detailed explanation-3: -Its main characteristics include anti-authoritarianism, or refusal to recognize the authority of any single style or definition of what art should be; and the collapsing of the distinction between high culture and mass or popular culture, and between art and everyday life.
Detailed explanation-4: -The clearest example would be the death bunny scene where a rabbit slaughters men. Intentional or not, these works of art belong on the Postmodern film list because they subverted expectations and gave audiences something they couldn’t have anticipated long before that was more en vogue.