Meaning of postcanon | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Postdating the development of a religious canon.
   not-comparable
2. Set or revealed after the canonical ending of a work of fiction.
   not-comparable, slang

Examples

“In these instances, one is dealing with essentially a postcanon phenomenon, where editors are trying to add commentary to the book of Job.”

“In one recent review, for instance, a charismatic scholar rather acidly mocks the position of those who want to make a distinction between the way God dispenses his gifts before the completion of the inspired writings and after their completion, accusing them of forcing a dichotomy between a “precanon God” and a “postcanon God.””

“These postcanon works share two qualities: anonymous or pseudepigraphic authorship and unsubstantiated or obviously false connections to Jesus or his family, apostles, patriarchs, or prophets.”

“This allows kaydee falls not only to give us a postcanon story—what happens to Amy and Rory after the episode?”

“Rowling began making postcanon remarks in interviews that diversified characters at the center of the narrative.”

“At the time of writing, the most popular Hannibal fic, by a large margin, describes itself as "a post-canon Hannigram fix-it fic."”

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