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postliterary

postliterary adjective: after literature.

Adjective

postliterary (comparative more postliterary, superlative most postliterary)

  1. After literature.
    • the structural shift from a literary to postliterary culture2005, Gustavo Fischman, Critical Theories, Radical Pedagogies, and Global Conflicts, page 81
    • […] such investigation might either revive an intense effort to reclaim the cinema as a (romantic) art form par excellence or lead to the invention of something like a postliterary hermeneutics […]2011, Erkki Huhtamo, Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications

Forms of postliterary

comparativemore postliterary
superlativemost postliterary

Origin of postliterary

From post- + literary.

Questions about postliterary

What does postliterary mean?
Postliterary means after literature.
What part of speech is postliterary?
Postliterary is an adjective.

Words near postliterary in the dictionary

  1. postlingual
  2. postlingually
  3. postlinguistic
  4. postlinguistically
  5. postliteracy
  6. postliterary
  7. postliterate
  8. postlitigation
  9. postlockdown
  10. postlockout
  11. postlogging

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