LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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An assault on the notion that there is any knowable truth
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An assault on the sexual mores of the Victorian Age
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A reaffirmation of Romantic notions of the sublime
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -A term tied very closely to postmodernism, deconstructionism is a challenge to the attempt to establish any ultimate or secure meaning in a text.
Detailed explanation-2: -Postmodernist philosophers in general argue that truth is always contingent on historical and social context rather than being absolute and universal and that truth is always partial and “at issue” rather than being complete and certain.
Detailed explanation-3: -One of the most well-known postmodernist concerns is deconstruction, a theory for philosophy, literary criticism, and textual analysis developed by Jacques Derrida.
Detailed explanation-4: -Modernist truth Scientific truth was created first by observing something, creating a hypothesis as to its cause, then devising an experiment to determine the truth or not of the hypothesis. If proven, then you would have a scientific theory that would be held as truth until otherwise disproven.