Postmodernism. The Phenomenon That Has Gained Authority

Abstract

The concept of postmodernism has been theorized over time by several authors, highlighting the importance of the link between it and postmodernity, the period in which it began to develop, within the formulation of the features of the current. Postmodernism appears in a post-industrial world, a world in which architecture, electronics, genetics, art etc. have developed. In postmodernity, the world begins to change, to tend towards the expansion of pop culture, to become much freer and to accept new behaviors. Against the background of such a cultural context, a new literary trend begins to take shape, postmodernism, which, broadly speaking, is characterized by: the apotheosis of capitalism, the fading of emotions, the decomposition of the subject, irony on the past, the triumph of parody, kitsch, mediation and representation, the disappearance of the individual style, a greater rupture between the signified and the signifier, the collapse of realism as a method that claims to provide access to reality etc. Although postmodernism has received several definitions or descriptions, it has been understood differently, it remains a phenomenon that also imposes itself in Romanian culture.