postmodernist

[pohst-mahd-ern-ist]

adjective

1. relating to or characteristic of postmodernism.

noun

1. a person who produces creative or literary work in a postmodern style.

Example Sentences

For instance, the language is highly stylized—Mitchinson describes it as “a postmodernist poem”— and deliberately vague, in order to make ordering the pages as difficult as possible.

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In the last part of "White Noise," the main characters deal with their fear of death in various ways — though, as a seminal postmodernist story, perhaps "deal" is too strong a word.

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But the student rebellion of 1968 in Paris — the historic Events of May — traumatized the French architectural world, which subsequently questioned the cold, abstract formalism of Modernist architecture within a larger postmodernist critique of consumerism.

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She borrowed from and quoted other artists with the aplomb of a postmodernist.

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The grid — a modernist pictorial device that she deploys with postmodernist bathos — is rendered in wonky, spray-painted lines or a loose pink and brown checkerboard.

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