Defined variously as a reaction to modernism or merely the movement that followed it, postmodernism remains a controversial concept. As a term, it tends to refer to an intellectual, artistic, or cultu [..]

also post-modernism, by 1977, from post- + modernism. Defined by Terry Eagleton as "the contemporary movement of thought which rejects ... the possibility of objective knowledge" and is ther [..]

The term postmodernism is used to describe the changes that took place in Western society and culture from the 1960s onwards that arose from challenges made to established structures and belief system [..]

Of, relating to, or being any of various movements in reaction to modernism that are typically characterized by ironic self-reference and absurdity (as in literature).

 – a literary movement that began in the 1960s characterized by introspection, disengagement of conventions and standardization, focus on popular themes of the day such as anti-establishment ideology [..]

A cultural and intellectual trend of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries characterized by emphasis on the ideas of the decenteredness of meaning, the value and autonomy of the local and the parti [..]

A theoretical perspective--widespread in cultural studies and anthropology--that is based on the idea that there is no objective social reality, but that different realities are constructed in the minds of individuals from the words and images (or discourse) between people.

noun. 1. a number of corresponding philosophical propensities which grew in response to classical modernism during the late twentieth century. Most postmodern stances refute classical metaphysics for [..]

New Historicism

A term with many meanings: rejection of the idea that there is one superior way of understanding the world (see metanarrative and totalizing narrative); a type of analysis known as deconstruction; a s [..]

Under Construction.

(n) genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism

not a single theory but rather a range of reactions to modernism and its assumptions. It rejects the idea of an all-embracing grand narrative, a single theory or principle that explains all human ende [..]

The belief that society is changing so rapidly and constantly that it is marked by chaos and uncertainty, and social struc­tures are being replaced by a whole range of different and constantly changing social relationships. Societies can no longer be understood through the application of general theories like Marxism or functionalism, which seek t [..]

an imprecise term for a type of art that rebelled against modernism. One key characteristic is the crossover between high and low culture (eg fine arts and mass media). The term can also be used in a [..]

A late 20th-century philosophical approach or style of cultural analysis that seeks to reveal the cultural or social construction of concepts conventionally assumed to be natural or universal. (from E [..]

A late 20th-century philosophical approach or style of cultural analysis that seeks to reveal the cultural or social construction of concepts conventionally assumed to be natural or universal. (from E [..]

A philosophical school which views modernism as being ethnocentric and tied to western intellectual and economic colonialism. The view that wholesale adoption of modern western cultural values, econom [..]

Postmodernism resists encyclopaedic definition. On the level of economic phenomena, debates have centred on postmodernity as a separate historiographic ...

Known as the radical doubt position, postmodernism counters the nave realist position of positivism by asserting that “there can never be a final, accurate representation of what is meant or said, only different textual representations of different experiences” (Denzin, 1996, p. 132, as cited by Miller et al., 2003). Postmodernism is the historical [..]

Late-twentieth-century critical, literary, and performance movement that reacts to modern art and literature; postmodernists suggest that truth is no longer verifiable, and that new art forms are best [..]

A broad art historical category of contemporary art that uses both traditional and new media to deconstruct cultural history and deploys theory in its attack on modernist ideals. Canadian postmodern a [..]

Post-Modern design has its roots in North America in the 70s. Subject to considerable analysis, in essence it suggested that functional modernism could go no further and it aimed to return ornament an [..]

A twentieth-century art movement marked by reactions against the philosophy and practices of modern

People got crazy with their art and literature after World War II. A period known as postmodernism (yep, it came after Modernism) was all about its experimental style. It's like the literary equi [..]