What is Postmodernism?
1 - of relating to, or being an era after a modern one.
2 - of, relating to, or being any of various movements in reaction to modernism that are typically characterised by a return to traditional materials and forms (as in architecture) or by ironic self-reference and absurdity (as in literature)
3 - a late 20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism, which represents a departure from modernism and is characterised by the self-conscious use of earlier styles and conventions, a mixing of different artistic styles and media, and a general distrust of theories.
4 – Anything that challenges the traditional way of doing things, rejecting boundaries between high and low forms of art, rejecting rigid genre distinctions, emphasising pastiche, parody, intertextuality, irony, and playfulness. Postmodernism favours reflexivity and self-consciousness, fragmentation and discontinuity (especially in narrative structures), ambiguity, simultaneity, and an emphasis on the destructured, decentered, dehumanized subjects.
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