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.

Postmodern Books

The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)

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The Art of the B-Movie Poster by Adam Newell

A Bad Case Of The Sposdas

226 books — 4 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Postmodern cult classics

90 books — 118 voters

Breaking the Bias of English by Vivian Probst

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Postmodernist Literature

4 books — 2 voters

Ergodic Literature

61 books — 65 voters

Open This Little Book by Jesse Klausmeier

KidBox Reads: Postmodern Picture Books

12 books — 12 voters

There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm

Persephone in the Late Anthropocene by Megan Grumbling

Existential Horror

23 books — 2 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Postmodern”

“ I always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah... Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role – and I myself am the most exacting audience I have ever had. ”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

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“ Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to. ...more ”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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