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postpostmodernism

postpostmodernism is the alternative spelling of post-postmodernism.

Meaning of post-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

Origin of postpostmodernism

From post- + postmodernism.

Questions about postpostmodernism

What is postpostmodernism the alternative spelling of?
Postpostmodernism is the alternative spelling of post-postmodernism.

Words near postpostmodernism in the dictionary

  1. postpositivistic
  2. postpositivists
  3. postposits
  4. postpostively
  5. postpostmodern
  6. postpostmodernism
  7. postpostscript
  8. postpotential
  9. postpotentials
  10. postpractice
  11. postprandial

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