postmodern literature

collocation in English

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postmodern
adjective
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/ˌpəʊstˈmɒd.ən/us
/ˌpoʊstˈmɑː.dɚn/
relating ...
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literature
noun[U]
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/ˈlɪt.rə.tʃər/us
/ˈlɪt̬.ɚ.ə.tʃɚ/
written artistic works, especially those with a high and lasting ...
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Critics have traced the use and re-use of such topoi from the literature of classical antiquity to the 18th century and beyond intopostmodernliterature.
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Your earlier fiction has been sort of squarely in the realm ofpostmodernliterature, and the new work is much more straightforward.
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In addition, both modern andpostmodernliteratureexplore fragmentariness in narrative- and character-construction.
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To some extent, the movement can be seen as bearing some of the characteristics ofpostmodernliterature.
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Postmodernliterature, like postmodernism as a whole, tends to resist definition or classification as a movement.
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In fact, the novel may be viewed as a critique, spoof, or deconstruction of the grand overarching conspiracies often found inpostmodernliterature.
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Scholars have written of these subgenres' stylistic place inpostmodernliterature, and also their ambiguous interaction with the historical perspective of postcolonialism.
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This change is also a change from modernist literature topostmodernliterature.
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Some further argue that the beginning ofpostmodernliteraturecould be marked by significant publications or literary events.
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Postmodernliterature, as suggested by its name, was a reaction to the norms of modernist literature, but drew much influence from the stream of conscious style.
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In this sense, postcolonial literature may be considered a branch ofpostmodernliteratureconcerned with the political and cultural independence of peoples formerly subjugated in colonial empires.
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Intertextuality inpostmodernliteraturecan be a reference or parallel to another literary work, an extended discussion of a work, or the adoption of a style.
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