Postmodernism– Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late 20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism, marking a departure from modernism. The term has been more generally applied to describe a historical era said to follow after modernity and the tendencies of this era.

Key Words: Re-Imagining, Pastiche, Parody, Copy, Bricolage

Pastiche– Something that imitates previous work

Parody– Imitates pervious work to ridicule it with a sense or irony or as a joke

Intertextuality- Idea that there’s a text inside another text

Characteristic of post modern society- More about consumption

Implosion– Collapse of society

 Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Fredric Jameson– Talk about the loss of a meta narrative

There’s a crisis in historicity