Postmodernism (may be abbreviated to pomo in adjective form) literally means ‘after the modernist movement’. While “modern” itself refers to something “related to the present”, the movement of modernism and the following reaction of postmodernism are defined by a set of perspectives.


The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism - Stuart Sim (Author)


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Concise and clear … the Companion will be useful to many types of reader … [it] provides an interesting and varied overview of the many ways in which postmodernism has established itself as a cultural phenomenon. – Philosophy Now

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What is ‘deconstruction’? What authors are considered ‘postmodern novelists’? The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism combines a series of fourteen in-depth background chapters with a body of A-Z entries to create an authoritative, yet readable guide to the complex world of postmodernism. Following full-length articles on postmodernism and philosophy, politics, feminism, lifestyles, television, and other postmodern essentials, readers will find a wide range of alphabetically-organized entries on the people, terms and theories connected with postmodernism, including: Peter Ackroyd; Jean Baudrillard; Chaos Theory; Death of the Author; Desire; Fractals; Michel Foucault; Frankfurt School; Generation X; Minimalism; Poststructuralism; Retro; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; and Trans-avant-garde. Students interested in any aspect of postmodernist thought will find this an indispensable resource.