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  2. Postmodern literature - Wikipedia

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    Several themes and techniques are indicative of writing in the postmodern era. These themes and techniques are often used together. For example, metafiction and pastiche are often used for irony. These are not used by all postmodernists, nor is this an exclusive list of features.

  3. Postmodernism - Wikipedia

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    Five postmodern characteristics consistently found in marketing literature were compared to their post-postmodern counterparts: anti-foundationalism to rewriting; dedifferentiation to redifferentiation; fragmentation to reengagement; reversal of production and consumption to rebalancing of production and consumption; and hyperreality to ...

  4. Metafiction - Wikipedia

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    The development toward metafictional writing in postmodernism generated mixed responses. Some critics argued that it signified the decadence of the novel and an exhaustion of the artistic capabilities of the medium, with some going as far as to call it the ' death of the novel '.

  5. List of postmodern novels - Wikipedia

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    List of postmodern critics; List of postmodern writers; Postmodern literature; Postmodern art; Postmodern film and television; Graphic novel; Criticism of postmodernism;

  6. Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

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    Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism is a 1991 book by Fredric Jameson, in which the author offers a critique of modernism and postmodernism from a Marxist perspective. The book began as a 1984 article in the New Left Review. [1] [2] It has been presented as his "most wide-ranging and accessible book". [3]

  7. Postmodern picture book - Wikipedia

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    Postmodern picture books are a specific genre of picture books. Characteristics of this unique type of book include non-linear narrative forms in storybooks, books that are "aware" of themselves as books and include self-referential elements, and what is known as metafiction .

  8. Postmodernist anthropology - Wikipedia

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    Clifford Geertz, considered a founding member of postmodernist anthropology, [1] advocates that, “anthropological writings are themselves interpretations, and second and third order ones to boot” [2] In the 21st century, some anthropologists use a form of standpoint theory; a person's perspective in writing and cultural interpretation of ...

  9. List of postmodern writers - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of postmodern authors This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .