How is The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie different from traditional and conventional literature?
kplhardison Student Graduate School eNotes Editor Best answer as selected by question asker. Muriel Sparks wrote The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as a postmodernist novel which is dissimilar to traditional and conventional forms of literature. Traditional and conventional novel construction, among other things, relies heavily on the omniscient third-person narrator which could alternately tell each character’s thoughts, feelings, motives, perceptions in addition to their conversations and actions. There is also a reliance on continuity of chronology: For example, the end comes at the end, it doesn’t obtrude into the narrative as it progresses. There is also a reliance on communications of moral value, representation of classic aesthetic, detailed description of characters and environments. Postmodernist novels, like Muriel Sparks’ novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, break with the elements listed above and instead follow the modernist traditions, however, postmodernism even goes beyond
