Meanings
comparative more postliterary · superlative most postliterary
- After literature.
the structural shift from a literary to postliterary culture
2005, Gustavo Fischman, Critical Theories, Radical Pedagogies, and Global Conflicts, page 811 more example
[…] such investigation might either revive an intense effort to reclaim the cinema as a (romantic) art form par excellence or lead to the invention of something like a postliterary hermeneutics […]
2011, Erkki Huhtamo, Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications
Origin
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postliterary. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postliterary
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