Assignment #3: Post-Modernist Literature

Irving, W. Rip van Winkle (USA, 1819-short story)
Irving, W. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (USA, 1820-short story)

The two books that I have read about Victorian Literature Rip van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow were very interesting because in the first book Rip van Winkle the story begins about five or six years before the American Revolution and ends twenty years later,also the second book The legend of sleepy Hollow is among the earliest examples of American fiction still read today.Rip van Winkle is one of America's most beloved–based on German folk tales.Both Rip van Winkle and The legend of Sleepy Hollow were produced during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) (the Victorian era). It forms a link and transition between the writers of the romantic period and the very different literature of the 20th century.The style of the Victorian novel tended to be of an improving nature with a central moral lesson at heart.




McCarthy, C. No Country for Old Men (USA, 2005-novel)
McCarthy, C. The Road (USA, 2006-Novel)

In the first book No country for Old Men was set along the United States–Mexico border in 1980, the story concerns an illicit drug deal gone wrong in a remote desert location. The story is about the interweaving paths of the three central characters (Llewelyn Moss, Anton Chigurh, and Ed Tom Bell) set in motion by events related to a drug deal gone bad near the Mexican-American border in southwest Texas in Terrell County.The novel has received a significant amount of critical attention.The post modernism in this book that was adapted in a film was characterized by the rejection of objective truth and global cultural narrative or meta-narrative.

The second book The Road,is a post-apocalyptic tale of a journey taken by a father and his young son over a period of several months, across a landscape blasted by an unnamed cataclysm that destroyed all civilization and, apparently, almost all life on earth.It was adapted in a wonderful film,the setting is very cold, dark and filled with ash and the land is devoid of living vegetation.On their journey, the duo scrounge for food, encounter roving bands of cannibals, and contend with horrors.The Road has received numerous positive reviews and honors since its release.In my opinion I think that this book is one of the best books that I have read and is a clearly example of post modernism because postmodernism is often associated with difference, plurality, textuality, and skepticism.