Vol. 7, Issue 2, Part D (2025)

The term multifaceted reflects the diverse aspects of modernism and postmodernism. The title directs us towards the period after the Modern period. To understand postmodernism, we have to go through the history of English literature. Modernism is a conscious movement having philosophical, aesthetic and literary dimensions. Modernism was the phenomenon of the 1920s, the post-war period (World War I). Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot were the pioneers of modernism. Modernism seeks truth, meaning and history while Postmodernism rests only on representations of surface reality. Postmodernism could be interpreted as a philosophical reaction against several assumptions concerning modernity. Unlike Modernism, Postmodernism is more concerned about differences, transformation and change. It is ambivalent in nature. The publication of The Death of the Author (1968) marks the beginning of Postmodernism. The author was made irrelevant, and the only relevant thing was language. Originally, the idea came from the German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche’s God is Dead. This break allowed various voices to decline the importance of the writer and to break the chain of an ongoing tradition. Modernists never ignored the importance of authors, as they were significant landmarks in constructing and enriching the tradition. This paper aims to study the multifaceted approach towards the developments and shifts from modernism to postmodernism. It will explore the ideas and theories of Roland Barthes, Ferdinand de Saussure, Jacques Derrida and Michael Foucault.