On the Difference between Modernism and Postmodernism

1. Different views: Modernists are optimists, and they expect to find unity, order and eternity; Postmodernists are pessimists. They always find diversity, disorder and temporality.

2. Different ideas: Modernism emphasizes the worship of technology and the rationality and logic of functions, while Postmodernism advocates high technology, high emotion and people-oriented.

3. Different methods: Modernism follows the absolute role of physical attributes, standardization, integration, industrialization, high efficiency and high technology. Postmodernism follows the dominance of human experience, the unity and continuity of time and space, the interpenetration of history, individuality, laxity and liberalization.

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1. Modernism:

From 65438 to 1990s, French symbolism literature spread to European and American countries and became an international literary movement, marking the beginning of modernism literature as an important ideological trend in the history of western literature. In these 20 years, many important modernist writers and works have appeared.

French symbolism continued to develop and produced outstanding poets, such as Malamey and Valery. Expressionist drama in German-speaking countries officially entered the international stage; Ireland has its own "Renaissance Movement", and its leader, Ye Zhi, is the most accomplished English writer in this period.

2. Postmodernism:

Postmodernism literature is the product of western industrial society. The extreme development of science and technology and rationality and the outbreak of two world wars: the negative effects of science and technology and rationality can be fully demonstrated. It is with the help of the establishment of natural science that western capitalism has advanced by leaps and bounds, pushing science and technology to the extreme. On the one hand, the bourgeoisie established a huge industrial production system by relying on science and technology, which promoted the rapid development of society;

On the other hand, science, technology and reason have been turned into tools of egoism and colonial plunder. As a result, domestic crises and contradictions have intensified, and the imbalance in the division of the world market by capitalist countries has deepened, eventually leading to the outbreak of world war.

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