If anything is art, then everyhing is and the concept becomes redundant.
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You couldn't, for eg, claim a Mills & Boon novel as postmodern lit. Needs self- consciousness...
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ambiguous plot, lack of closure, reversal of hierarchies of norms, lack of chronology & more
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I would associate those qualities with modernism.
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Yes, absolutely. Wrote about qualities of modernism here: http://helenpluckrose.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/characteristics-of-modernism-in-turn-of.html …
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and then postmodernism breaks even that structure.
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But what you associate with postmodernism I would call more 'late modernism'.
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OK. What defines postmodernism for u. Is it not breaking even with that structure?
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Rejecting the idea of a high & low culture? And form? Reversing hierarchies?
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No, those things can be found way back in many art forms.
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But in the form of a movement which explicitly reacts to structuralism?
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Absolutely, in the sense of critical perspective on Saussure/Jakobson/Lévi-Strauss
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