The present argumentative essay looks into the gap between modern and postmodern literary devices, such as the plot, narrative technique and characters, as means of expression in Margaret Atwood’s Death by Landscape. They are characterized by notions of conflict, irregularity, omissions and absences. The topic of the short novel is relevant both to the present – as the whole world is dominated by the pandemic confusion – and to the author’s better understanding of postmodernism as epistemic value.

Cristina Nechifor

Author

Cristina Nechifor is a Master’s student at Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania.