The Influence Of Postmodernism

Based on the previous studies, postmodernism is a certain style of thought with certain tendencies which goes against literary conventions and characterized by a heavy reliance on techniques like fragmentation, paradox, digression, disunity, pluralism, and ambiguity had overshadowed both of deconstruction and absurdism and this impact appears to be evident through various techniques adopted by both approaches.In fact, for deconstructionism, this partition, rupture of systems and decentering of human agency has slipped into self-referentiality of the text.But, for postmodernism, this abolishment of referentiality is a reconstruction of human agency as the human is free from the repression or closure of language. Also, the notion of free play

When Lyotard the most important founder of postmodernism is quoted in this regard “the search for instabilities” (Lyotard, 53) He is read and chosen as a continuum with Derrida, which, of course, is the focal point. Both of deconstruction and absurdism are considered as philosophical approaches that challenge the ability of language to represent the truth within the text and the outside world. Therefore, the main aim of this study is to clarify the common techniques between the two approaches. The undecidability and uncertainty are in-between-ness of deconstruction and absurdism where Derrida's deconstruction is a discursive mechanism used for rehabilitating and renovating the old approaches of language, translating them into “difference” and thus ‘new and continuous interpretations of

Since every text needs to be explained or interpreted depending on a prior text and so on, then the text is lost in a case of absurdity. This study seeks to prove that if every text is depending on a prior text, which is, in turn, depends on still another text, ad infinitum; since all we perceive derives its existence from something else that exists by its nature and that is accordingly independent then we cannot have a definite regress, we cannot have a forever chain of causal dependencies. For example, if this universe is dependent on another universe and that goes forever, we would not have the universe in the first place and this can also be applied to literary texts.In absurdism the concept of “reductio ad absurdum” where the refutation of meanings by proofing or showing that it leads finally to absurd conclusions will be obvious when we follow the deconstructionist track of reading and interpreting