1. Characteristics and Notable details
Post Modernism
Characteristics and Notable details

2. Post-modernism and Truth
Truth is not to be trusted
What is true today can be false tomorrow
Truth can be altered by culture and human experience

3. Post Modernism & Human Experience
Unstable
Discontinuous
Indeterminate
Internally contradictory
“Jagged"
Unfinished
With no one specific reality possible
Ambiguous
Fragmented
Inconclusive

4. What does that mean for the reader?
Chronology is tampered with
You are introduced to worlds that won’t 100% make sense
EVERYTHING will be open to interpretation

5. Elements to watch out for…
Irony
Dramatic
Situational
Verbal (truth)
Playfulness
Wordplay
Meta writing
“Smash-ups”/ Pastiche
Black Humor
Laugh at things that are serious
Intertextuality (reference or parallel to another literary work, an extended discussion of a work, or the adoption of a style)
Technoculture/Hyper- reality and Paranoia
Magical Realism

6. (Re)Sources