How To Use Postmodernist In A Sentence
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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
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Often post-Soviet Russian literature is called postmodernist when what is really meant is that it is post-Soviet.
A Progressive on the Prairie
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Both the copies and the rubbings are completely different in spirit from postmodernist appropriation.
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Various departments inhabit a ramshackle collection of buildings up and down Holloway Road, ranging through arts and crafts, neo-Georgian, brutalism and postmodernist junk.
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Arrayed against them are postmodernists and leftists as well as populist nationalists who have revived Maoist ideas about people power.
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My conception of postmodernist de-differentiation via an aesthetics of desire was also in large part dependent on Lyotard's work.
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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
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The third is the emergence of new attitudes, usually described as postmodernist, which challenge the Church's traditional ascription of authority to the Bible.
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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.
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And this is the postmodernist bit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet the museum is quite indulgent towards postmodernist artefacts, displaying them prominently and trumpeting their subversive qualities.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Perhaps the strangest element of Auster’s reputation as an American postmodernist is that his language never registers this kind of absence at the level of the sentence.
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postmodernist architecture
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I didn't even know you could do that, but this is how postmodernist politics works.
Times, Sunday Times
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Oh but, the author suggested, we're all postmodernist now, aren't we?
The Times Literary Supplement
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In contrast to many postmodernists, who engage in easy forms of parody when addressing the high-flown art of the past, Schütte has actually had the courage to work from inside the tradition - and risk the comparisons.
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She is emphatically not a modernist or postmodernist author.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like many a postmodernist, he suspects that conviction itself is potentially authoritarian, his own convictions naturally excepted.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Postmodernists claim that science, no less than religion and literature and philosophy, is infiltrated with culture.
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Postmodernists prefer local traditions which are not entirely led by rational and instrumental criteria, but make room for the sacred and even the irrational.
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The kinds of literary work that have been described as postmodernist include the Theatre of the Absurd and some experimental poetry.
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Because postmodernism is associated with a suspicion of meta-narratives, intellectual tendencies such as post-structuralism, relativism and pragmatism have been labeled postmodernist.
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This tides once contribute to postmodernist controversy on philosophy, aesthesis, sociology, literature and pedagogy.
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In all the areas we have looked at, there are very vigorous alternative intellectual traditions outside those promoted by postmodernists.
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Across the many branches of science, some theories are so well researched and documented that only fundamentalist chuckleheads, and tenure-bloated, postmodernist, gasbags fuss over them.
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Her intellectually provocative essay on the songs is touched by fashionable postmodernist ideas.
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Whether that crowd consists of Elizabethan tradesmen or Harvard postmodernists, Shakespeare entertains his audiences while challenging them to think.
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Similarly, the contemporary detective novels of interest to us here are postmodern without being postmodernist.
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The production is propelled by the spirit of parody and irony, self-referential allusion, iconoclasm, the postmodernist and post-dramatic.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Book Development" is like when you have the Magical Conversation with your Potential Agent, and the Agent asks you where you see your Revisions headed, and you are all like, "I really envision this novel as a sort of homage to Anna Karenina, with certain postmodernist elements, and of course the meta-narrative which references freely both The Society of the Spectacle and Ulysses," and your Potential Agent is all like, "Yeah, totally!
Archive 2009-09-01
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They are the much-misunderstood gurus of postmodernists.
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According to this postmodernist interpretation, the principle of reason is not bankrupt.
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Dying is a book that really does deserve that loose label 'postmodernist'.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It's one of those twee, child-centric works that sift through the last shakings of the postmodernist bag for ways to enliven their inch-deep whimsy and fathomless solipsism – crapulous, cod-Vonnegut cutesiness being Foer's weakness – and often presume an intimacy with grave and terrible events, the better to drape themselves in the mantle of importance.
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close gleams with Oscar worthiness
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The document is an extant work of that most postmodernist of enterprises, the law.
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With his experimental "metafiction" - spoofing literary conventions, leaving sentences dangling, writing an entire novel ( "Gold Fools") in the form of questions - he seemed to place himself squarely in the postmodernist camp; but his ear for American, especially New York, speech, and his attention to the spirit of place and compassion for the average loser, all defined him as a kindred spirit of such great American humorists as Mark Twain and Peter De Vries.
NYT > Home Page
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It may be ironic that some recent defenses of apparent difficulty in academic writing have turned for support to Frankfurt School texts, because Frankfurt briefs for the necessary difficulties in postromantic and modernist art, and in critical theory, actually tend to apply or extend all those initial Kantian-romantic concerns about truth, objectivity, and universality in ways largely inimical to most Left postmodernist discourse.
Sociopolitical (i.e., _Romantic_) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics
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Postmodernists, by the very definition, like to dabble.
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It combines the postmodernist use of heuristic concepts with a Chinese tradition of philological inquiry.
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Unlike most postmodernists, he doesn't enervate the past or its ideas with condescension.
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Let's have a bit of subtlety and sophistication here, qualities that postmodernists are always urging us to adopt.
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Now I grabbed this quote from Wikipedia as you do, because many of the arguments constructed against the 2.0 Father are based around "postmodernist" perspectives drawn especially from "architecture":
Archive 2005-10-01
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Her medium and subject matter flew in the face of traditional figurative aesthetics, feminist proprieties, and postmodernist biases, all at once.
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I am far from the first to emphasize what has been regarded by many as our quintessential postmodernist predicament.
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Wheen writes of an ‘incongruous coalition of postmodernists and primitivists, New Age and Old Testament’, the leaders of which have been ‘remarkably effective over the past quarter-century’.
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Does that mean that the door is wide open for any interpretation, constrained, as the postmodernists would have it, only by intertextuality?
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It is a slightly weary metafictional premiss, and the novel risks becoming wrapped up in dated postmodernist shadowplay.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The mechanically reproduced images evoke a seemingly unlikely affinity with postmodernist concerns.
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This tides once contribute to postmodernist controversy on philosophy, aesthesis, sociology, literature and pedagogy.
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Social constructivist theories of science nicely complement postmodernists' angst against science.
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Jencks - a foremost expert on postmodern architecture and a committed postmodernist - has long been known for his fascination with historical chronometry of a rather morbid kind.
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Of antirealist writers -- experimentalists, postmodernists, magical realists; Rushdie, DeLillo, Zadie Smith
Powell's Books: Overview
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Postmodernists are disillusioned with this triumphalist view of science dispelling ignorance and making the world a better place.
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He is careful to add that he is no postmodernist.
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My exegetical method combines elements of postmodernist literary criticism and canonical criticism.
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Has the postmodernists' faith in the viability of assimilating and propounding notions in fundamental tension with each other been lost?
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This fits well with current threads on grist and inkstain, where the protagonists walk right past what could have been done ten and twenty years ago if clear scientific conclusions had been honestly accepted and well into the postmodernist framing debate.
Archive 2008-04-01
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The postmodernist dilemma of periodization is vividly dramatized by these efforts to circumscribe their location in contemporary fiction.
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Like their fellow citizens Plastilina Mosh and Café Tacuba, Kinky are polymorphous postmodernists with one foot in experimental art and the other in adrenalized dance.
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By the 1980s he was being claimed by the academic establishment as a theoretically engaged purveyor of proto-postmodernist playfulness.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Artistic approach to the style has been undergoing modern transformation, emerging out from under the oppressive yoke of postmodernist theory.
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Both the copies and the rubbings are completely different in spirit from postmodernist appropriation.
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Since I'd had my fill of postmodernist neoclassicism by the early '90s, Georges's ‘Temple’ paintings seemed rather ham-fisted to me at the time.
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We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised non-reactive dualism, postmodernist grammatology and dicey dichotomies.
Onion soup | smitten kitchen
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Postmodernist beliefs therefore tend to a multiculturalist pluralism and relativism.
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Palin makes more sense if you view her through a "postmodernist" lens.
Palin Took Heat For Giggling After Radio Show Host Attacked Opponent As "Bitch"
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This quirky, sumptuous body of work presaged the ideas of many postmodernist image manipulators.
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This critique of modernist nationalism-as-mental-colonialism has come to serve as the fig leaf for the postmodernists.
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Postmodernist novel Snow White is Donald Barthelme s representative work.
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This staves off moral panic and encourages postmodernist academics to write papers in learned journals.
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They brought back a sensuousness and emotionalism to art which had been banished by the puritanism of postmodernist theory.
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It is with the same level of fervency that I'm told in the media that the postmodernist EU is all sweetness and light while the US acts ‘selfishly’ or as a ‘bully boy’.
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Some commentators, particularly those sympathetic to postmodernist thought, have argued against a notion of difference based on experiential diversity.
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It is a slightly weary metafictional premiss, and the novel risks becoming wrapped up in dated postmodernist shadowplay.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Literary beginnings: The band's unusual name refers to Don DeLillo's White Noise, a 1985 postmodernist novel about a man who faces death after a chemical mishap, dubbed the airborne toxic event.
On the verge: Airborne Toxic Event flies high, stays grounded
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By reading BUFFET FROID as part of the postmodernist project, it seems to me, we close off these "totalising" interpretations and leave only one valid reading of the text: as an autotelic artefact of darkly comic absurdity, the ironic distance of its vision the only tenable response in a postmodern era.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Postmodern(ism)
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With modernism and the avant-garde, postmodernists reject realism, mimesis, and linear forms of narrative.
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A Modernist and postmodernist epic, in places it performs the play of sestina or sonnet in an absurd or unusual light; it recasts regular and irregular histories, offering speaking parts alongside dumbshow.
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Rejecting the autotelic meaning offered in the narrative in and of itself, these readings become attempts to bind it to an "objective reality" which, in a postmodernist view, does not exist.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Postmodern(ism)
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Thus, though the happenings in postmodernist fiction seem fabulist, it is clear that the writers have one foot in contingent reality.
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The traditional Arabists were hammered from the postmodernist left for their “Orientalism,” as Edward Said famously alleged in 1978.
Matthew Yglesias » Damn Arabists
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The postmodernists rejected this viewpoint, however, as excessive romanticism, but Peto would surely not have cared.
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Science is alleged to be no more legitimate than many other non-scientific practices such as those embodied in ‘local knowledge’, ‘ethnoscience’ and what the postmodernist Lyotard calls ‘narratives’.
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The works nicely evoked the familiar postmodernist theme of cultural objects returning to nature.
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His ostensibly modernist abstractions are constructed, to an extent, like postmodernist pastiches.
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Psychologists espousing postmodernist views have adopted a similar position concerning scientific objectivity, recognizing the socially constructed nature of psychological knowledge.
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Gimblett's ostensibly modernist abstractions are constructed, to an extent, like postmodernist pastiches.
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An Analysis of Postmodernist Narrative Features of E. L. Doctorow's City of God.
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The music is far from being a reheated postmodernist stew.
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It's a theory of the self, combining postmodernist visions of subjectivity as constellations of effects in space with modernist concerns regarding time.
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With modernism and the avant-garde, postmodernists reject realism, mimesis, and linear forms of narrative.
