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Essay Archive - The School: Postmodernist Ideas
The School: Postmodernist Ideas
Barthelme's "The School" is the first postmodernist story I have ever read.
When I read it for the first time, my lips formed a bitter smile. In my
imagination, postmodernist stories differed from the classical ones in the
arrangement of the ideas and in the standard that postmodernists reject society.
True, “The School” does differ in composition, for example the absence of
introduction, but though it sounds somewhat comical, it does also have an
incorporated pessimism that makes me reflect on the story. I think this
pessimism is the cause that postmodernists reject society.
The notion o....
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