Meanings
- uncountableA wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture which are emerging from and reacting to postmodernism.
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.
2016, Lukas Hoffmann, Postirony: The Nonfictional Literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers, transcript Verlag, →ISBN, page 102 more examples
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 […]
2011, Stephen J. Burn, Jonathan Franzen at the End of Postmodernism, A&C Black, →ISBNAs 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), […]
2015, Brian McHale, The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 177
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Czech post-postmodernismus
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Polish postpostmodernizm
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Russian постпостмодерни́зм
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Spanish pospostmodernismo
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post-postmodernism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/post-postmodernism
“post-postmodernism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/post-postmodernism. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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