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Postmodernism describes a broad late-20th century movement that occurred across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism and marked a departure from modernism.While encompassing a broad range of ideas and projects, postmodernism is typically defined by an attitude of skepticism or distrust toward grand narratives, ideologies, and various tenets of Enlightenment rationality, including the existence of objective reality and absolute truth, as well as notions of rationality, human nature, and progress. Instead, it asserts that all knowledge and "truth" are the product of unique systems of social, historical, and political discourse, and are therefore contextual and constructed. Accordingly, postmodern thought is broadly characterized by tendencies to epistemological and moral relativism, pluralism, and focus on subjectivity

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Novels from this Movement

• Lolita

• One Hundred Years of Solitude