How To Use postmodernist In A Sentence
- Eventually almost all postwar writers whose work departs significantly from convention have come to be labeled "postmodernist," a term that has definable meaning but that also has been used as an aid in this lashing-out, a way to further disparage such writers both by lumping them together indiscriminately and by identifying their work as just another participant in literary fashion. Postmodernism
- Often post-Soviet Russian literature is called postmodernist when what is really meant is that it is post-Soviet. A Progressive on the Prairie
- Both the copies and the rubbings are completely different in spirit from postmodernist appropriation.
- Various departments inhabit a ramshackle collection of buildings up and down Holloway Road, ranging through arts and crafts, neo-Georgian, brutalism and postmodernist junk.
- Arrayed against them are postmodernists and leftists as well as populist nationalists who have revived Maoist ideas about people power.
- My conception of postmodernist de-differentiation via an aesthetics of desire was also in large part dependent on Lyotard's work.
- Postmodernists, on the other hand, are more multivocal in their viewpoint, holding that the ownership of concepts and words is less important than their relevance to culture-making; in art, for example, postmodernists will "appropriate" from anywhere and everywhere, and by redefining the context of the works or snippets, create something new (Andy Warhol's soup cans, above: using "fine art" painting methods to appropriate canned soup). Archive 2009-01-01
- The third is the emergence of new attitudes, usually described as postmodernist, which challenge the Church's traditional ascription of authority to the Bible.
- Now and then a few people, witting or unwitting postmodernists, who think that social constructs trump the laws of physics, are mowed down by logging trucks.
- And this is the postmodernist bit. Times, Sunday Times
