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Postmodernism has received significant criticism for its lack of stable definition and meaning. The term marks a departure from modernism, and may refer to an epoch of human history (see Postmodernity), a set of movements, styles, and methods in art and architecture, or a broad range of scholarship, drawing influence from scholarly fields such as critical theory, post-structuralist philosophy ...
Early critics important to postmodernism: Søren Kierkegaard; Claude Lévi-Strauss; Friedrich Nietzsche; Ferdinand de Saussure; General: Cultural studies; Gender studies; Hungryalism; List of postmodern novels; List of postmodern writers; Literary theory; Post-colonialism; Poststructuralism; Postmodern literature; Second-wave feminism; Third ...
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
Although postmodern criticism and thought drew on philosophical ideas from early on, "postmodernism" was only introduced to the expressly philosophical lexicon by Jean-François Lyotard in his 1979 [a] The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. This work served as a catalyst for many of the subsequent intellectual debates around the term.
Theories of the Postmodern: 55–66. Surrealism Without the Unconscious: 67–96. Spatial Equivalents in the World System: 97–129. Reading and the Division of Labor: 131–153. Utopianism After the End of Utopia: 154–180. Immanence and Nominalism in Postmodern Theoretical Discourse: 181–259. Postmodernism and the Market: 260–278.
In the realm of art and literature, this era witnessed a revival of interest in traditional Chinese aesthetics, albeit often approached with a postmodern sensibility that involved both a critique and a celebration of the past. Chinese postmodernism frequently engages in a nuanced re-examination of historical themes, traditional motifs, and ...
In his 2020 paper Hyperhybridism: Postmodernism is Old but not Old Fashioned [24] Ghasemi develops yet another heir to postmodernism, which he calls hyperhybridism. He formulates a cultural and literary assessment of post-postmodernism and argues that the contemporary era is defined by multidirectionality.