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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: postmoderism1, fragmented view as something tragic to be lamented and mourned as loss, modernism is about 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, postmodernism follows most of these same ideas rejecting boundaries between high and low forms of art, rejecting rigid genre distinctions, emphasizing pastiche, parody, bricolage, irony, and playfulness. Postmodern art (and thought) favors reflexivity and self-consciousness, fragmentation and discontinuity (especiallyin narrative structures), ambiguity, simultaneity, and an emphasis on the destructured, decentered, dehumanized subject, modernism is about 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, 1. market capitalism - 18th to late 19th century associated with aesthetics = realism, modernism presents fragmented view, marketing selling consuming comodities not producing them, modernism is about 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), 3. multinational or consumer capitalism - mid 20th century to present emphasis on marketing selling consuming, modernism is about 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, electric and internal combustion engines and moderism, postmodernism celebrates fragmentation provisionality incoherence, modernism is about 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, 1. market capitalism - 18th to late 19th century associated with stream-driven motor, modernism is about 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, modernism is about an emphasis on fragmented forms, discontinuous narratives, and random-seeming collages of different materials