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The Waste Land is often cited as a means of distinguishing modern and postmodern literature. [citation needed] The poem is fragmentary and employs pastiche like much postmodern literature, but the speaker in The Waste Land says, "these fragments I have shored against my ruins". Modernist literature sees fragmentation and extreme subjectivity as ...
List of postmodern critics; List of postmodern writers; Postmodern literature; Postmodern art; Postmodern film and television; Graphic novel; Criticism of postmodernism; Pop culture fiction; Literary fiction
Widely varying size fonts and pictures combine to create a post-modern picture book. According to Anstey (2002), characteristics of postmodern picture books include: Non-traditional plot structure; Using the pictures or text to position the reader to read the text in a particular way, for example, through a character's eyes or point of view.
He traces these characteristics of postmodernism across a variety of fields and media, including film, television, literature, economics, architecture, and philosophy. In one of his most prominent examples, he draws out the differences between modernism and postmodernism by comparing Van Gogh 's "Peasant Shoes" with Andy Warhol 's "Diamond Dust ...
Song lyrics were selected from Madonna (postmodern), Taylor Swift (post-postmodern), and Lady Gaga as a transitional example. Five postmodern characteristics consistently found in marketing literature were compared to their post-postmodern counterparts: anti-foundationalism to rewriting; dedifferentiation to redifferentiation; fragmentation to ...
Salient features of postmodernism are normally thought to include the ironic play with styles, citations and narrative levels, [7] a metaphysical skepticism or nihilism towards a "grand narrative" of Western culture, [8] a preference for the virtual at the expense of the real (or more accurately, a fundamental questioning of what "the real ...
Waterland can also be said to fall under the category of postmodern literature. It has characteristics associated with postmodern literature, such as a fragmented narrative style, where events are not told in chronological order. An unreliable narrator is also present. Major themes in the novel include storytelling and history, exploring how ...
Postmodern theory (PM) in anthropology originated in the 1960s, along with the literary postmodern movement in general. Anthropologists working in this vein of inquiry seek to dissect, interpret and write cultural critiques.