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Information and Guide to Anglo-Irish writer Samuel Beckett
created and maintained in Dublin, Ireland
The work of Samuel Beckett is Postmodern only in its construction, the content and lyricism of his work is all Modern.
Definition of the Postmodern
Links
Samuel Beckett's Postmodern Fictions by Brian Finney, California State Univ., Long Beach.
Definition of the Postmodern
- a view that social and cultural reality, as well as social science itself, is a human construction.
oregonstate.edu/instruct/anth370/gloss.html - A
wide-ranging term describing certain post-World War II artistic works,
characterized by nonlinearity, self-referentiality if not self-parody,
and multiple/simultaneous sensory impressions.
highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0767430077/student_view0/glossary.html - Postmodernity
(also called post-modernity or the postmodern condition) is a term used
by philosophers, social scientists, art critics and social critics to
refer to aspects of contemporary art, culture, economics and social
conditions that are the result of the unique features of late 20th
century and early 21st century life. Among these features are included
globalization, consumerism, the fragmentation of authority, and the
commoditization of knowledge. (See Modernity)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern
Links
Samuel Beckett's Postmodern Fictions by Brian Finney, California State Univ., Long Beach.