This document lists six key features of postmodern literature: maximalism, irony, pastiche, paranoia, fragmentation, and a lack of absolute truth. It instructs the reader to choose one of these features and analyze how it is represented in one of the assigned readings for the postmodern movement in art or literature.

1. Look up the Postmodern Movement in literature or art. Choose
one of the features of postmodern literature listed below and
trace how you see it being representing in one of the readings.
1. maximalism (embracing excess and exagerration)
2. irony
3. pastiche (creating a collage, drawing on resources that
already exist)
4. paranoia
5. fragmentation
6. lack of an Absolute Truth
7. the unknowability of
any
thing