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Postmodern
The term postmodern literature is used to describe certain characteristics of post-World War II literature (relying heavily, for example, on fragmentation, paradox, questionable narrators, etc.) and a reaction against Enlightenment ideas (that is, reforming society and advancing knowledge) implicit in Modernist literature.
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The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.
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― The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
― The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
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