Modernism Vs. Postmodernism pt 1: The Crying of Lot 49

[Campbel Morgan]

Doesn't this read like a sophomore essay? Reads like an attempt to
write a compare/contrast essay. Sorry, Michelle, but I was expecting
at least a few sentences, if not a paragraph or two, on Ragtime ...and
...

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Robin
Landseadel<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> From Examiner.com San Jose
>
> Michelle Cannon
> West Palm Beach Literature Examiner
>
>        The relationship between modernism and postmodernism is
>        often complicated as both genres share certain similarities as
>        well as differences. E.L. Doctorow’sRagtime and Thomas
>        Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 are examples of the
>        relationship between these two genres. In both novels,
>        discarded objects play a crucial role in establishing the
>        relationship between modernism and postmodernism.
>        Throughout both of these texts, there are numerous examples
>        of not only discarded objects, but also discarded people and
>        ideas. This recurrent theme intertwines itself within both of
>        these novels and becomes vital to the understanding of the
>        relationship between modernism and postmodernism.