American Studies: Post Modernism vs. Other readings

What are some of the major distinctions between the post-modern selections and those from the rest of the course readings? Do they resonate with you anymore or less? How so, why, and in what way? Offer some brief comparison/contrasts to different texts read.

Readings used

Wu Cheng’en – The Journey to the West.

Voltaire’s – Candide

William Blake – Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

William Wordsworth – We are Seven

William Butler Yeats – Easter

Gustave Flaubert – A Simple Heart

T.S Eliot – The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock