postmodernism

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  1. genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism

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  • (For him, postmodernism is a subset of Modernism, a sort of rebranding.)
  • Rethinking Postmodernism (s) revisits three historical sites of American literary postmodernism: the early postmodernism of Thomas Pynchon's V. (1961), the emancipatory postmodernism of Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987), and the late or post-postmodernism of Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated (2002). —  AvaxHome RSS:
  • "[T] he influence of postmodernism was a major factor in resurrecting the American horror film during the last decade, and it continues to play a vital (and controversial) role." —  GreenCine Daily
  • In many instances this is even more affectively overdetermined than "postmodernism" - think of the emotional valence of a term like —  The Valve
  • DT: It seems to me that in its broadest sense postmodernism is as much a rhetorical device as it is a set of theories and political stances. —  davidthompson
 

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