5/30/2023 0 Comments Ondaatje in the skin of a lion![]() ![]() Indeed, order and shape, if not totally eschewed, are constantly realigned, and an y order that does emerge is, as Ondaatje says, “very faint, very human” (ISL 146). Postmodern use questions this controlling venture, regarding with scepticism and irony the modernist desire to believe in the ultimate validity - the absolute truth - embedded in the myth.ĢMyth does not usually constitute a vital ingredient in postmodern fiction for the obvious reason that order and shape are no longer viable ends. T.S.Eliot identified modernist use of myth as “a way of controlling, of ordering, of giving a shape and a significance to the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history” (Ellmann 681). One way to do this is to use and abuse myth. It tries to go beyond modernism, or around it, or undemeath it. David Lodge says the postmodern “shares the modernist commitment to innovation, but pursues aims by methods of its own. ![]() 1In many ways the postmodern is a continuation of the modem both involve diegetic fragmentation and nonlinearity, shifting points of view. ![]()
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