Fragmentation:
Postmodern literature often features fragmented narratives, non-linear storytelling, and disjointed structures that makes traditional storytelling methods hard.
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Metafiction:
Postmodern literature frequently incorporates self-referential elements, such as characters who are aware they are in a work of fiction or authors who break the fourth wall.
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Pastiche:
Postmodern literature often borrows and remixes elements from various sources, including other texts, genres, and cultural phenomena, to create new and original works.
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Intertextuality:
Postmodern literature explores the ways in which texts are interconnected and influence each other, blurring the lines between originality and imitation.
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Irony and Parody:
Postmodern literature often employs irony and parody to critique or satirize cultural norms, conventions, and ideologies.
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Playful experimentation with language:
Postmodern literature often plays with language, using wordplay, puns, and unconventional writing techniques to linguistic conventions.
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Deconstruction of boundaries:
Postmodern literature challenges and blurs traditional boundaries, such as those between high and low culture, fact and fiction, and reality and fantasy.
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Skepticism towards grand narratives:
Postmodern literature questions and deconstructs overarching narratives of progress, morality, and truth, highlighting the complexities and contradictions of human experience.
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Emphasis on subjectivity and multiple perspectives:
Postmodern literature emphasizes the subjective nature of reality and the presence of multiple perspectives, showing off the diversity of human experience.
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Reflexivity:
Postmodern literature often reflects on its own form and content, drawing attention to the act of writing, reading, and interpretation, and inviting the reader to engage with the text on a meta level.
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