Assignment 3: Post-Modernist Literature
Compare and contrast the 2 Post-modern works with 2 of the other 4 works you have read.

Post-Modernist:
Bruce Chatwin, combining fiction and non-fiction. Chatwin describes in his book called The Songlines a trip to Australia which he has taken for the express purpose of researching Aboriginal song and its connections to nomadic travel. Discussions with Australians, many of them Indigenous Australians, yield insights into Outback culture, Aboriginal culture and religion, and the Aboriginal land rights movement.
*The basic idea that Chatwin posits is that language started as song, and the aboriginal Dreamtime sings the land into existence. A key concept of aboriginal culture is that the aboriginals and the land are one. Chatwin combines evidence gained there with preconceived ideas on the early evolution of man,
*One of the most amazing qualities that sets Chatwin apart was his ability to mix fact and fiction in his 'stories'

Paul Theroux in his book called,The Old Patagonian Express he chronicled his journey by train through the Americas.
*Theroux had a grand time, enduring irritating travelers, witnessing a soccer riot in El Salvador and reading to the late blind Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.
*The slow departure of novelists from the travel writing game has hurt its prestige, while in reality it’s been an indication of the genre’s increasing sophistication. Travel books have become more specialized ,analytical and political
*His book has been praised for its depth and understanding about the people, the culture, giving a flavor of the various South American countries
*His writing style is renowned for it's rich description of people and places, irony, and misanthropy.


Modernist Literature:

*Chandler,R (Trouble is my Business)
Chandler, had an immense stylistic influence upon the modern private detective story,in the style of the writing and the attitudes now characteristic of the genre.

*Lawrence,T.E, (Seven Pillars of Wisdom)
Lawrence writes not only a consummate military history, but also a colorful epic and a lyrical exploration of the mind of a great man, this is one of the indisputable classics of 20th century English literature.
-The modernist writing, however, takes the reader into a world of unfamiliarity, a deep introspection, a cognitive thought-provoking experience, skepticism of religion, and openness to culture, technology, and innovation.


Victorian Age:
*Poe,E.A (The Murderers in The Rue Morgue.)
It show the Revolutionary War; a period already romanticized in our collective consciousness and have dimension of mystery and intrigue by a ghostly tale set among it.

*Irving,w (The Legend of Sleepy Hallow)
He is consider Victorian detective fiction,as a distinct genre of the nineteenth century.

-Both works talk about Victorian detective fiction.- The form of entertainment involved 'spectacles' where paranormal events,such as communication with the dead ,ghost.-Gothic literature combines romance and horror in attempt to thrill and terrify the reader. Possible features in a gothic novel are foreign monsters, ghosts, curses, hidden rooms and witchcraft.-Some topics like the prostitution or child labour would be consider in the literature.- The literature of the Victorian age entered in a new period after the romantic revival. The literature of this era expressed the fusion of pure romance to gross realism,tends to come closer to daily life which reflects its practical problems and interests.