Question

Which of the following statements are correct? A. The period from the 1960s to the present can be considered the postmodern period. B. Postmodernism came immediately after World War I. C. Well-known authors of the postmodern period are John Barth, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo etc. D. Samuel Beckett's Jacob's Room is a postmodernist work. E. Eliot's “Sailing to Byzantium” is a postmodernist work.

• A. A and B Only
• B. A and C Only
• C. A, C and E Only
• D. D and E Only

Hint:

Postmodernism is generally connected with the post-1960s period and writers like John Barth and Don DeLillo.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

Postmodernism is generally associated with the period after modernism. In literary history, the postmodern period is often considered to begin around the 1960s. So statement A is correct. Statement B is incorrect because postmodernism did not come immediately after World War I. The period after World War I is more strongly connected with modernism. Statement C is correct because John Barth, Cormac McCarthy, and Don DeLillo are important writers associated with postmodern fiction. Statement D is incorrect because Jacob's Room is a novel by Virginia Woolf, not Samuel Beckett. Statement E is also incorrect because “Sailing to Byzantium” is a poem by W.B. Yeats, not T.S. Eliot, and it is not a postmodernist work. Therefore, the correct statements are: \[ A \text{ and } C \text{ only}. \]