Conceptual theoretical idea that helps you live in the times we live in now.

Characterized by new technology new media.

Parody v Pastiche

pastiche is a work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist

parody is a work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony

intertextuality: surface signs, gestures & play

preoccupation with visual style: memento is very visual.

fragmentary, decentred nature

Meta narrative overall big structure

BRICOLAGE is a useful term to apply to postmodernist texts as it ‘involves the rearrangment and juxtaposition of previously unconnected signs to produce new codes of meaning’ (Barker & Jane, 2016:237). Similarly, INTERTEXTUALITY is another useful term to use, as it suggests signs only have meaning in reference to other signs and that meaning is therefore a complex process of decoding/encoding with individuals both taking and creating meaning in the process of reading texts