Postmodern Jeopardy

The belief that it is good for society or an individual person to buy and use a large quantity of goods and services. Postmodernism always has a critical approach to this concept. (5 pts.)

An inflated sense of self and excessively self-involved. The term originated from Greek mythology, where the young Narcissus fell in love with his own image reflected in a pool of water. The Postmodern individual often struggles with this unhealthy past time. (5 pts.)

One of the Postmodern virtues is that everything has already been written/said/painted. Whatever you do, somebody has done it before you. Therefore, Postmodernism can tell us nothing in itself (the author has no authority, he is dead). All he can do is acknowledge past works of art and fiction by making references to them. (5 pts.)

A literary device that basically is "when the actual meaning is the complete opposite from the literal meaning." It can be playful, or it can be used to highlight the absurdity or severity of serious situations. (5 pts.)

An effacement of the frontier between high culture and mass culture, or commercial culture. (10 pts.)

Fiction is about fiction. A literary device used self-consciously and systematically to draw attention to a work’s status as fiction. Making aware that it is fiction. Departure from realism and foregrounding the role of the author and the reader in inventing and receiving fiction. (10 pts.)

A term coined by the French philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard that refers to our growing disbelief in progress, science, religion, and ideology. (10 pts.))

The literary equivalent of a collage: it's not about creating something from scratch but drawing on what already exists. “A work of art which is created deliberately by copying the style of something or someone else.” (15 pts.)

The idea that the author is no longer recognized as the sole center of meaning. It is up to the reader to find his/her own meaning with the text. (15 pts.))

A lack of a stable identity. At the extreme turns into a nihilistic individual who has nothing in which to believe and essentially nothing to do. (25 pts))