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Since postmodernism represents a decentred concept of the universe in which individual works are not isolated creations, much of the focus in the study of postmodern literature is on intertextuality: the relationship between one text (a novel for example) and another or one text within the interwoven fabric of literary history.
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 ...
Postmodernity (post-modernity or the postmodern condition) is the economic or cultural state or condition of society which is said to exist after modernity. [nb 1] Some schools of thought hold that modernity ended in the late 20th century – in the 1980s or early 1990s – and that it was replaced by postmodernity, and still others would extend modernity to cover the developments denoted by ...