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Characteristics of Post-Modern Literature - Coggle Diagram
Characteristics of Post-Modern Literature
Irony
Playful
Black Humour
Metafiction
Distance audience emotionally
Histiographic metafiction (i.e. editing historical events)
Temporal Distortion (i.e. non-linear stories)
Paranoia of order behind the chaos (in the events of the narrative)
Slice-of-life
Stylistic minimalism
Representing reality through illusions
Defined descriptions of fantasy
Began 1950s
Open ended, sometimes relating to the beginning
History reveals truth
Self-Reflective
Permutation
Theatre of Absurd
Random
Maximalism and minimalism
Relationship between contemporary piece and historical piece (i.e. intertextuality)
Combination of multiple genres/elements (i.e. pastiche)
Homage to other text
Popular references to fairy tales and genres
Parallel another text
Copy stylistic choices