Definitions of Key terms
- Pastiche = a work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist.
- Parody = a work of art, drama, literature or music that imitates/mocks the work of a previous artist with ridicule or irony.
- Bricolage = In art, bricolage is a technique or creative mode, where works are constructed from various materials available or on hand, and is often seen as a characteristic of postmodern art practice.
- Intertextuality = can be a reference or parallel to another literary work, an extended discussion of a work, or the adoption of a style.
- Referential
- Surface and style over substance and content
- Metanarrative
- Hyperreality = It is a threat to contemporary society in association with reality and its copies. Illusions of reality are always formed, and they pretend as the originals.
- Simulation (sometimes termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’) = Baudrillard claims that our current society has replaced all reality and meaning with symbols and signs, and that human experience is a simulation of reality.
- Consumerist Society = A society in which people often buy new goods, especially goods that they do not need, and in which a high value is placed on owning many things.
- Fragmentary Identities
- Alienation
- Implosion
- cultural appropriation
- Reflexivity
- Deconstructive postmodernism = expresses the consequences of an idealism that has taken the linguistic turn and then has seen through the language
Postmodernism:
The rework and copy of other works that may or may not be adapted to differ slightly. An emphasis on ideologies as a motive to maintain political power.
It may even be ironic, joking, or literally, ‘just playing’. However, it is always a deliberate copy (of the old). Therefore, the old has been re-worked into something new, which clearly entails a recognition (a nod and a wink) to what it was and where it came from.
An example of this postmodernism is through the parody “The Love Box in Your Living Room“. Proven through quotes such as “this was the olden days”, an ironic description of the timeframe being mock-documentarized. A purpose to entertain as well as inform.
“And the generals realised that if they had these devices, they would no longer need telephones to ask their men to kill millions of Germans… after breakfast” dysphemistic humour, dark descriptions of the introduction with non-wired radio transmitters.
Fragmentary individuals:
The process of fragmentation is a key element of POSTMODERN CULTURE. The notion of separating, splitting up and dividing previously homogeneous groups such as, friends, the family, the neighbourhood, the local community, the town, the county, the country and importantly, is often linked to the process of fragmented identity construction.
Fragmentary communities: In 1959, Richard Hoggart (Uses of Literacy) noted the shift in modern societies particularly the impact on our ‘neighborhood lives’, which was ‘an extremely local life, in which everything is remarkably near‘.