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Sam Nelson
Fr. Fitzgibbons
English 190
12/16/04

Modernism's Lamentation and Postmodernism's Celebration
While each movement claims its own name and set of authors, the characteristics of the literary postmodernist period are quite similar to those of the literary modernist movement, and their differences are more those of attitude than of form. Modernism and postmodernism strongly emphasize a new standard which distances and rejects the romantic period's ideas of how art should be created and how one should perceive art. Annie Dillard's Holy the Firm and Virginia Woolf's "An Unwritten Novel" are both excellent examples of the modern and postmodern literary movements, and can be used to illustrate their general similarities and subtle differences.
In order to examine how Annie Dillard's Holy the Firm and Virginia Woolf's "An Unwritten Novel" represent modernistic and post modernistic writing, one must understand the characteristics of these literary movements. Contrary to......

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