Postmodern Terms
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- Civilization
- the actual human beings
- Postmodernism
- a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture, which are generally characterized as either emerging from, in reaction to, or superseding, modernism
- Simulacrum
- in postmodern society there is only one original—and the rest are copies, or simulacra
- Western
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of western regions or the West
- "Civilization Man"
- lives outward
- Western Cannon
- a term used to denote a canon of books, and, more widely, music and art, that has been the most influential in shaping Western culture
- Intertextuality
- references to other things, forms, genres in a given work : The Simpsons, the Scream series, gangsters watching The Godfather films in the Sopranos
- Hybridity
- mixing and sampling of different kinds and levels - hip-hop music, mockumentary films (Spinal Tap) - distinctions of high/pop culture are blurred
- Low culture
- a derogatory term for some forms of popular culture. The term is often encountered in discourses on the nature of culture. Its opposite is high culture. It has been said by culture theorists that both high culture and low culture are subcultures
- Subjectivity
- Proceeding from or taking place in a person's mind rather than the external world
- Ambiguity
- Doubtfulness or uncertainty as regards interpretation
- Bricolage
- Using something easy at hand for a tool it was not designed for
- Culture
- beliefs, life, etc
- Reflexivity
- Directed back on itself
- High culture
- now used in a number of different ways in academic discourse, whose most common meaning is the set of cultural products, mainly in the arts, held in the highest esteem by a culture, or denoting the culture of ruling social groups
- Grand narrative
- which are stories that a culture tells itself about its practices and beliefs—universal explanatory theories which permit no substantial opposition to their principles
- Magical realism
- an artistic genre in which magical elements or illogical scenarios appear in an otherwise realistic or even "normal" setting
- Modernity
- a term that refers to the modern era. It is distinct from modernism, which, in different contexts, refers to cultural and intellectual movements of the period c. 1630-1940
- "Culture Man"
- lives inward
- Impressionism
- A literary style characterized by the use of details and mental associations to evoke subjective and sensory impressions rather than the re-creation of objective reality
- Pastiche
- A dramatic, literary, or musical piece openly imitating the previous works of other artists, often with satirical intent