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  • adjective postmodern
  • noun An advocate or follower of postmodernism.

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  • adjective of or relating to postmodernism

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Examples

  • "Book Development" is like when you have the Magical Conversation with your Potential Agent, and the Agent asks you where you see your Revisions headed, and you are all like, "I really envision this novel as a sort of homage to Anna Karenina, with certain postmodernist elements, and of course the meta-narrative which references freely both The Society of the Spectacle and Ulysses," and your Potential Agent is all like, "Yeah, totally!

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • Perhaps the strangest element of Auster’s reputation as an American postmodernist is that his language never registers this kind of absence at the level of the sentence.

    2009 November 24 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

  • Perhaps the strangest element of Auster’s reputation as an American postmodernist is that his language never registers this kind of absence at the level of the sentence.

    2009 November | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

  • "Book Development" is like when you have the Magical Conversation with your Potential Agent, and the Agent asks you where you see your Revisions headed, and you are all like, "I really envision this novel as a sort of homage to Anna Karenina, with certain postmodernist elements, and of course the meta-narrative which references freely both The Society of the Spectacle and Ulysses," and your Potential Agent is all like, "Yeah, totally!

    You Asked For It 2009

  • Perhaps the strangest element of Auster’s reputation as an American postmodernist is that his language never registers this kind of absence at the level of the sentence.

    Why James Wood is so Good… 2009

  • Often post-Soviet Russian literature is called postmodernist when what is really meant is that it is post-Soviet.

    A Progressive on the Prairie 2009

  • 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.

    Postmodernism 2010

  • Palin makes more sense if you view her through a "postmodernist" lens.

    Palin Took Heat For Giggling After Radio Show Host Attacked Opponent As "Bitch" 2009

  • Now I grabbed this quote from Wikipedia as you do, because many of the arguments constructed against the 2.0 Father are based around "postmodernist" perspectives drawn especially from "architecture":

    Archive 2005-10-01 Ben Barren 2005

  • Now I grabbed this quote from Wikipedia as you do, because many of the arguments constructed against the 2.0 Father are based around "postmodernist" perspectives drawn especially from "architecture":

    This Post will only make sense to Architecture Astronauts Ben Barren 2005

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