Literary Movement
Postmodernism
Emerged in the 1960s–70s as a reaction to Modernism's seriousness. Theorised by Lyotard, Jameson, Baudrillard. In poetry: playfulness, indeterminacy, and the erasure of hierarchies.
Definition
A late-20th-century literary mode characterised by self-reflexivity, pastiche, irony, and scepticism toward grand narratives.
Example
John Ashbery's 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror'; Language Poetry; conceptual poetics of Kenneth Goldsmith.