American Literature / Unit 16 AML 1537 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Postmodernism: The Term and the Techniques
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The idea
The witness calls postmodernism hard to define and notes that Don DeLillo, one of its recognized novelists, rejects the term. Its writers play with language and with the book itself, borrow modernist experiments, and raid detective fiction, horror and science fiction for their materials.
In practice
A label its own novelists refuse.
Where people slip
A rejected label is still the exam's label.
Your place on the trail
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