Outline

Outline

Short Story

The Sparkle in the Eye

Research Paper Final Draft

Research Paper Final Draft

Works Cited

Works Cited

After WWII

No matter what happens in our life or in the world, no matter how hard it gets or how bad it seems, things will always get better in the End.

Post Modernism Characteristics

1. an emphasis on impressionism and subjectivity in writing (and in visual arts as well); an emphasis on HOW seeing (or reading or perception itself) takes place, rather than on WHAT is perceived. An example of this would be stream-of-consciousness writing.

2. a movement away from the apparent objectivity provided by omniscient third-person narrators, fixed narrative points of view, and clear-cut moral positions. Faulkner’s multiply-narrated stories are an example of this aspect of modernism.

3. a blurring of distinctions between genres, so that poetry seems more documentary (as in T.S. Eliot or ee cummings) and prose seems more poetic (as in Woolf or Joyce).

4. an emphasis on fragmented forms, discontinuous narratives, and random-seeming collages of different materials.

5. a tendency toward reflexivity, or self-consciousness, about the production of the work of art, so that each piece calls attention to its own status as a production, as something constructed and consumed in particular ways.

6. a rejection of elaborate formal aesthetics in favor of minimalist designs (as in the poetry of William Carlos Williams) and a rejection, in large part, of formal aesthetic theories, in favor of spontaneity and discovery in creation.

7. A rejection of the distinction between “high” and “low” or popular culture, both in choice of materials used to produce art and in methods of displaying, distributing, and consuming art.

 ((All characteristics were taken directly from–> http://www.colorado.edu/English/courses/ENGL2012Klages/pomo.html

About Me

My name is Brian McNamara and I am a junior at Northview high school.  I am an actor, model, and I play hockey.  I have absolutely no idea where I want to go to college.  I think high school is difficult and VERY repetative.  I cannot wait for summer and I love chocolate.

Overview

Our end of the year assignment in Mrs. Breaux’s 11th literature class was to create a multi genre research project on an in depth topic on a certain author.  My choice was the post modernistic novelist and poet, Alice Walker. I chose her because pf her passion for what she beleves in.  I myself do not agree with some of the things that she believes him, but I believed that she believed in herself so strongly, that I could make an impressive and defining resarch paper, short story, and group of pictures.