1) Genre
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Postmodernism is a late-20th-century movement in the arts, architecture, and criticism that was a departure from modernism. Postmodernism includes skeptical interpretations of culture, literature, art, philosophy, history, economics, architecture, fiction, and literary criticism. It is often associated with deconstruction and post-structuralism be...
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[international relations] Postmodern International relations approaches have been part of international relations scholarship since the 1980s. Although there are various strands of thinking, a key element to postmodernist theories is a distrust of any account of human life which claims to have direct access to the `truth`. Post-modern inter...
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ways of thinking which stress a plurality of perspectives as opposed to a unified, single core
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(from the article `Postmodern Literature in Latin America`) ...1960s: the Guatemalan novelist Miguel Ángel Asturias (in 1967), the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1971), García Márquez (1982), and the Mexican poet ... No subject or idea has been as powerful, or as controversial, in American arts and letters at the end of...
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(from the article `continental philosophy`) ...contradiction`—of a discourse that, while denying the existence of truth, implicitly claims truth for itself—was the basis of later critiques of ... Beginning in the 1960s and `70s, ethical relativism was associated with postmodernism, a complex philosophical movement that qu...
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The belief that society is no longer governed by history or progress. Postmodern society is highly pluralistic and diverse, with no ‘grand narrative` guiding its development.
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A general (and often hotly debated) label referring to the philosophical, artistic, and literary cha
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unlike Modernism, Postmodernism starts from the assumption that grand utopias are impossible. It accepts that reality is fragmented and that personal identity is an unstable quantity transmitted by a variety of cultural factors. Postmodernism advocates an irreverent, playful treatment of one's own identity, and a liberal society.
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n] - genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism
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Related to rhetoric, a field of inquiry concerned with the ideological underpinnings of commonly held assumptions.
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Term used from about 1970 to describe changes seen to take place in Western society and culture from the 1960s on. These changes arose from anti-authoritarian challenges to the prevailing orthodoxies across the board. In art, postmodernism was specifically a reaction against modernism. It may be said to begin with Pop art and to embrace much of wha...
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noun genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism
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(art) Late-20th-century movement in architecture and the arts that rejected the preoccupation of post-war modernism with purity of form and technique, and sought to dissolve the divisions between art, popular culture, and the media. Postmodernists use a combination of style element...
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A term applied to certain developments in creative fields during the last decades of the 20th century. Basic characteristics of post-modernism include: (1) a playful approach to the medium; (2) a meta- or self-referential approach that draws attention to the conventions of genres and media; (3) anti-mimetic treatment to emphasizes that the work is ...
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