Defining Postmodernism
Postmodernism is a reaction to ____.
Modernism
In postmodernism, the ____ decides the meaning.
What is audience?
The part matters more than the ____.
What is whole?
Words are not real things, they are ____.
What are symbols?
Who made soup cans into art?
Who is Andy Warhol?
Postmodernism rejects universal ____.
What is meaning?
Postmodern plays break traditional ____.
What is plot?
Postmodern plays are often ____ in structure.
What is fragmented?
The spoken word is ____, the written word is dead.
What is alive?
____ wrote Gravity’s Rainbow.
Who is Pynchon?
Postmodernism focuses on ____ culture.
What is pop?
Postmodern plays care more about this than characters.
What is language?
Characters may be based on familiar ____.
What are clichés?
Sometimes, a person’s ____ can shape how they’re seen.
What is name?
Postmodern shows are often full of ____.
What is play?
A mix of styles is called a ____.
What is pastiche?
Instead of realistic people, characters may be exaggerated or puppet-like.
What are clichés?
A play that talks about itself is using ____.
What is metadrama?
In postmodernism, meaning is created through ____, not objects.
What is language?
Meaning is shared between the author and the ____.
What is audience?
The idea that things have a true core meaning is ____.
What is essentialism?
A performance that’s more like a dance or ritual than a story is called a ____.
What is happening?
A wild, fun, playful tone is called ____.
What is carnival?
Big, all-explaining ideas that can be false are called ____.
What are narratives?
This culture is mixed with “high” culture.
What is low?