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Want a very simple and sound definition of postmodernism? It's all about reflexivity and self-awareness. Postmodernism is basically writing about writing. Everything "meta" or metalinguistic belongs here. The writer being a character is basically a signature trope, but the point is: worlds within worlds. Escher drawing of one hand drawing the other is postmodern. In general: the frame. The frame of a painting, the frame of a book, being the book itself. In general all these, in classic stories, are invisible. But in postmodernism they are subject. What's outside the picture is what the picture is about. The frame itself. So again: reflexivity and infinite loops. Myse en abyme. That's all you need to understand. Everything more commonly recognized as postmodern is a subset of the core I've pointed out. For example "questionable narrators" are part of this because a narrator is himself a framing device of a story. Being the focus the frame itself, so the narrator, you go and "question" it as an actual character. Same for "fragmentation" and "paradox". They are devices. They are meta-structure, so metalinguistic. Reflexivity about language. And all of this comes out merely because the original framing device, and reflexivity, is the brain. AKA consciousness. Postmodernism is about the unreliable narrator that is consciousness.
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