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post-postmodernism

post-postmodernism noun: a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture which are emerging from and reacting to postmodernism.

Noun

post-postmodernism (uncountable)

  1. A wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture which are emerging from and reacting to postmodernism.
    • But it should be stressed that the post-postmodernism outlined here is not an achieved position that exists rigidly across Franzen's three novels. If postmodernism, as Patricia Waugh argues, represents a mood of intense “dissatisfaction or loss of […]2011, Stephen J. Burn, Jonathan Franzen at the End of Postmodernism, A&C Black, →ISBN
    • As we have seen, post-postmodernism was first associated with writers in the nineties, such as David Foster Wallace, who sought to differentiate themselves from postmodern writers of the preceding generation (Barth, Pynchon, and others), […]2015, Brian McHale, The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 177

Origin of post-postmodernism

From post- + postmodernism.

Questions about post-postmodernism

What does post-postmodernism mean?
Post-postmodernism means a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture which are emerging from and reacting to postmodernism.
What part of speech is post-postmodernism?
Post-postmodernism is a noun.

Words near post-postmodernism in the dictionary

  1. post-phenomenological
  2. post-phenomenologically
  3. post-phenomenology
  4. post-phlebitic
  5. post-phlebitic syndrome
  6. post-postmodernism
  7. post-postmodernist
  8. post-postscript
  9. post-postscripts
  10. post-prandial
  11. post-process

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