Modernism vs postmodernism4/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Essentially, authors wanted readers to be more aware of how storytelling works and interact and question it so that they become active rather than passive audiences, leading to Viewers Are Geniuses, the aversion of Small Reference Pools, and all kinds of Genius Bonus. ![]() An epic story with The Hero orbited by Satellite Characters was succeeded by stories with large casts with The Hero, if it is used, openly presented and critiqued as an Audience Surrogate. Post-modernism in books and movies was largely a questioning on the nature of narrative and plot and characterization. It has been pointed out that much post-modernist thinking originated in the countries (France, Germany) with a history of wartime devastation and in reaction to the threat of nuclear war which reared its head at the end of the war. It was natural, and almost inevitable, that people who had suffered through the war (and the preceding Great Depression) would question the ideals of perpetual progress inherent in modernism, and that would lead to a philosophy of questioning everything in general. ![]() Postmodernism first emerged as a philosophical movement amid the ruins and tribulations of postwar Europe and stems from a general disillusionment with thirties-era modernism brought about by World War II. ![]()
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