Meaning of post-postmodernism | Babel Free

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A wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture which are emerging from and reacting to postmodernism.

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“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 […]”

“As we have seen, post-postmodernism was first associated with writers in the nineties, such as David Foster Wallace, who sought to differentiate themselves from postmodern writers of the preceding generation (Barth, Pynchon, and others), […]”

“Postirony is only one term in use for the group of writers I investigate in this book, the others being post-postmodernism and new sincerity. However, not one of these labels seems applicable without causing problems.”

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