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What is postmodernism? What are the Characteristics of Postmodern Literature?
Post-modernism is the term used to suggest a reaction or response to modernism in the late twentieth century. So postmodernism can only be understood in relation to Modernism.
http://www.literary-articles.com/2013/08/what-is-postmodernism-what-are.html
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The First Postmodern Novel?
Tristram Shandy was "a post-modern classic before there was a modernism to be post about."
http://www.fractiousfiction.com/tristram_shandy.html
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The Best Postmodern Novels - Ranker
List of the best postmodern novels from popular postmodern authors such as Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, and Don DeLillo that are reactions against Enlightenment and Modernist literature. Postmodern novels use techniques like fragmentation, paradox and questionable narrators in their writing to be experimental in literature.
http://www.ranker.com/list/best-postmodern-novels/ranker-books
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Postmodern Literature Characteristics
Learn the characteristics of postmodern literature.
http://www.shmoop.com/postmodern-literature/characteristics.html
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Postmodernism and the Postmodern Novel
Few terms have been subject to such intense debates as "postmodernism." Though its indiscriminate use has all but exhausted the word of any kind of precise meaning, one can distinguish three major usages.
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0256.html
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Postmodern Novels - Goodreads
75 postmodern novels.
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/14675.Postmodern_Novels
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Postmodernism in Literature: Definition and Examples - Study
Postmodern literature is a type of literature that came to prominence after World War II. Learn about how postmodernism in literature rejects many literary conventions and embraces new ones in this lesson. Then, test your knowledge with a quiz.
http://study.com/academy/lesson/postmodernism-in-literature-definition-lesson-quiz.html
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What is Postmodern Literature? - The Ever and Ever That Fiction Allows
Defining the parameters of postmodern literature is a daunting task, due not only to disagreements about what texts can or can't be approached as postmodern, but also to the paradoxical and elusive nature of the postmodern movement.
https://angelmatos.net/2014/02/03/what-is-postmodern-literature/
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Postmodern Literature Overview
Postmodernism is one of those words that has made itself at home in our everyday language. Just think how often you've heard a movie or a book being described as "so postmodern." From Andy Warhol's pop art, to authors like Chuck Palahniuk and Douglas Coupland, to ultra-popular movies like Moulin Rouge, Scream, and Pulp Fiction, there's no getting around it: postmodernism has become part of our lives and our entertainment.
http://www.shmoop.com/postmodern-literature/
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10 of Literature's Most Unreliable Narrators - Flavorwire
It was 55 years ago today that Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita was first published in the US. Nabokov's remarkable prose is as evocative today as it was in 1958.
http://flavorwire.com/410468/10-of-literatures-most-unreliable-narrators
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The Nine Types of Unreliable Narrator - Writers Write
There is a long history of unreliable narrators in fiction. There is an even longer list in reality. They are called everyday people.
http://writerswrite.co.za/the-nine-types-of-unreliable-narrator
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Postmodernism: A List of Postmodern Characteristics.
Learn here about postmodern characteristics.
http://postmodernblog.tumblr.com/post/106532710/a-list-of-postmodern-characteristics
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Postmodernism: From the Cutting Edge to the Museum - The Guardian
Fun, bright, clever, but disposable and disturbing, postmodernism was all swagger and stance. But was this pre-digital phenomenon killed off by the internet? By Hari Kunzru.
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/sep/15/postmodernism-cutting-edge-to-museum
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An Essential Postmodern Reading List - Flavorwire
Yesterday, Dalkey Archive released a new edition of William Gaddis' postmodern masterpiece, The Recognitions, the book that Jonathan Franzen called "the ur-text of postwar fiction.
http://flavorwire.com/257636/an-essential-postmodern-reading-list
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Department of English Languages and Literature - Courses
'Postmodernism' is a broad range of responses to modernism, especially refusals of some of its totalizing premises and effects, and of its implicit or explicit distinction between 'high' culture and commonly lived life. Read to learn more.
https://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/2F55/post-mod-attrib.php
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Purdue OWL: Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism
This resource will help you begin the process of understanding literary theory and schools of criticism and how they are used in the academy.
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/722/08
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Postmodern Literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Postmodern literature is literature characterized by reliance on narrative techniques such as fragmentation, paradox, and the unreliable narrator; and often is (though not exclusively) defined as a style or a trend which emerged in the post-World War II era.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_literature
