word definitions for postmodernism

• Ironic - a term that describes something which has gone beyond the initial simplicity of an action or thought.


• Nostalgia - commonly used to describe a yearning for the past, often in an idealized form, or a general interest in past eras, personalities or events.


• Narrative style - an account of any event and the incidents it is composed. It is giving a connective order to a series of recorded events. ( Used in The Man Who Wasn't There )


• Intertextuality - is the shaping of the texts' meanings by other texts. It can refer to an author's borrowing and transformation of a prior text or to a reader's referencing of one text in reading another.


• Parody - A parody in contemporary usage is a work created to mock, comment on or poke fun at an original work, its subject, author, style or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation. ( Such as Austin Powers which mocks the James Bond films and books)


• Self Referentiality - Making a reference to itself or oneself or related to a work of literature or art which exhibits the author's or artist's self-conscious awareness of the creative process, of the techniques he or she is using etc.