| 单词 | postmodern |
| 例句 | postmodern adjectiveWORD NOTE postmodern Postmodern is among the most widely employed critical terms of our time, mainly because it can mean just about anything. Moreover, it neatly suggests that its user is learned, widely read, up to date on the latest in literary theory, and, in general, really cool, not to say—ahem—edgy. In essence postmodern describes the kind of self-aware writing or painting that doesn't take itself completely seriously, that recognizes with a wink that it's just writing or painting. In some ways, postmodern is an offshoot of Brechtian drama's “alienation” effect, in which the actor may address the audience, move in and out of character, regard the entire play and his role in it with world-weary irony. Similarly, the postmodern author deliberately undercuts the smooth surface of his narrative and by somehow standing back and commenting on the action prevents the reader from “losing himself in the story.” Unfortunately, this isn't really very new. Many classic novelists have done this, notably Cervantes and Sterne, not to mention such twentieth-century masters as James Joyce. Just as modernism has been called a variant of romanticism, so postmodernism may be simply a late form of modernism. Whatever the case, unless you're going to define it clearly, don't bandy the word about. — MDConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage.WORD NOTE postmodernism Postmodernism is modernism after the shock wore off. — DLConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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