postliterary

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adjective

After literature.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivepostliterary (comparative more postliterary, superlative most postliterary)

comparative more postliterary · superlative most postliterary

  1. After literature.

    the structural shift from a literary to postliterary culture

    2005, Gustavo Fischman, Critical Theories, Radical Pedagogies, and Global Conflicts, page 81
    1 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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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “postliterary,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postliterary.

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