Post modernism is an artistic and literary movement that quite obviously rejected the previous, modernism, movement in an attempt to analyse and reorganize the existing modes of art practice. ... Essentially, postmodernism uses art history imagery as its resource in a cannibalistic fashion, in a "way" that challenged art's audience, perception, themes, techniques and art in general. ... Pop art appropriating both the subject matter of mass culture and the techniques of mass production. ... In the early 1960s, Andy Warhol used this idea in adopting the mass-production technique of silk-scr...

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Simulacra is another technique employed by Byatt that reflects "post-modernism". ... Simulacra is a technique used also in Moulin Rouge, where characters instead of forming there own original thoughts, ideas, music and dialogue opt to express themselves through contemporary artists, such as U2, and John Lennon. Bricolage is a prominent postmodern technique used by Byatt throughout Possession, to legitimise the relationship between Ash and LaMotte. Possession contains many different literary exserts including letters, poems, fairytales and short stories. ... Byatt incorporates postmodern tec...

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Furthermore, Yeats masters the traditional sonnet which commonly addresses romantic themes, but he corrupts the literary mode by depicting rape, a taboo act against the tradition of love-making. ... This technique is used to manifest an impression of the loss of control and the succumbing to greater physical power which ultimately desensitizes Leda. ...

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