postmodernism

Which of the following are not synonymous with Postmodernism?

• eclectic approach

• aleatory writing

• parody

• pastiche

• surrealism

Select one personality in the list who was was not bracketed as literary 'high priest' of Modern Period ?

• T.S.Eliot

• James Joyce

• Matthew Arnold

• Ezra Pound

• Wyndham Lewis

Which of the following best describe Modern Literature?

• impressionism, subjectivity, stream of consciousness

• omniscient external narration

• documentary and prose like poems

• fragmented forms, discontinuous narrative,collage of disparate materials

• All of the above

The Wasteland is a collage of juxtaposed, incomplete stories or fragments of stories

• True

• False

The Dadaists wrote flowery, elaborate verses

• True

• False

Which movement promoted the practice of randomly inserting statements from newspapers and coffee table books to compose poems?

• Romantic Period

• Victorian Period

• surrealism

• Dadaism

Modernists lament fragmentation while postmodernists celebrate it

• True

• False

Pick out the phrase used by Ezra Pound to describe his poem The Cantos

• Duck-back

• Duck-bag

• rag-bag

• sack-bag

Which modernist architect declared that 'decoration is a crime'

• Adolf Loo

• Mies van Rohe

• Le Corbusier

Martian poetry was a minor movement in British poetry in

• 1920s

• 1930s

• 1950s

• 1970s