postmodernist

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Eventually almost all postwar writers whose work departs significantly from convention have come to be labeled "postmodernist," a term that has definable meaning but that also has been used as an aid in this lashing-out, a way to further disparage such writers both by lumping them together indiscriminately and by identifying their work as just another participant in literary fashion.

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  • Gilbert Adair, arch-postmodernist, has written two Agatha Christie pastiches, the second of which I reviewed here last year. —  Brit Lit Blogs
  • He paints his narrative with verisimilitude by including real people (Carmen Callil, his agent Carole Blake), but the overall effect - as a postmodernist, his reputation exceeds him - is more akin to that of reading about 'Bret Easton Ellis' in —  Brit Lit Blogs
  • Further in: "No longer the playful postmodernist, he is now, in the eyes of his admirers, something of a classicist, his critical enemies not high-minded squares but soulless philistines." —  GreenCine Daily
  • Eventually almost all postwar writers whose work departs significantly from convention have come to be labeled "postmodernist," a term that has definable meaning but that also has been used as an aid in this lashing-out, a way to further disparage such writers both by lumping them together indiscriminately and by identifying their work as just another participant in literary fashion. —  The Reading Experience
  • A couple of years ago, I came across the epitomy of silly postmodernist (a.k.a. "PoMo") that so far exceeded anything I had ever seen applied to medicine before. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
 

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