The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge Literary Elements

by Jean-Francois Lyotard

The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge Literary Elements

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Genre

Philosophy

Setting and Context

Postmodern epoch

Narrator and Point of View

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Tone and Mood

Diagnostic, anti-modernism, apathetic, and cynical

Protagonist and Antagonist

Post-modernists are protagonists. Modernists are antagonists.

Major Conflict

Modernist worldviews

Climax

Deconstruction of the modernist ideologies such as metanarratives.

Foreshadowing

Lyotard foreshadows a scenario whereby nations will engage in war for ‘information control.’

Understatement

Lyotard understates the pertinence of modernism.

Allusions

Historical allusions (World War II).
Literary allusions.

Imagery

Technology is a key fixture in the postmodern world that touches all sectors and spheres.

Paradox

N/A

Parallelism

Modernism is juxtaposed to postmodernism.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

Karl Marx is synonymous with Communism.

Personification

N/A

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