post-postmodernism
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.71 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture which are emerging from and reacting to postmodernism.
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Example Sentences
- "But it should be stressed that the post-postmodernism outlined here is not an achieved position that exists rigidly across Franzen's three novels. If postmodernism, as Patricia Waugh argues, represents a mood of intense “dissatisfaction or loss of […]"
- "As we have seen, post-postmodernism was first associated with writers in the nineties, such as David Foster Wallace, who sought to differentiate themselves from postmodern writers of the preceding generation (Barth, Pynchon, and others), […]"
- "Postirony is only one term in use for the group of writers I investigate in this book, the others being post-postmodernism and new sincerity. However, not one of these labels seems applicable without causing problems."
Etymology
From post- + postmodernism.