Postmodern Writing.
While postmodernism's usefulness for feminism is debated in conference rooms and scholarly journals, the term postmodernism itself has become a catchphrase in the academy and in the popular media for any discourse that questions and subverts accepted notions of reality. Self-reflexive, contradictory, eclectic, and decentered, postmodernism's varying impulses range from the playful to the nihilistic, the polyphonic to the inarticulable. In literary terms, however, it is possible to narrow the concept of postmodernism to experimentation with writing's formal elements and textual practices: syntax, genre, closure, point of view, narrative voice, linear plot, etc. Postmodern writing not only refers to its own discursive processes but radically challenges language's ability to communicate experience and perception.... ...
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