Realist and modernist traces persist within postmodern culture.

Evidence

No wonder, then, that shreds of its older avatars — of realism, even, fully as much as of modernism — live on, to be rewrapped in the luxurious trappings of their putative successor. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 13

Categorization

• DEFINE: Contributes to distinguishing pastiche from parody: old styles survive as recycled materials rather than as live stylistic commitments.
• XREF: connects to: The modern’s present-absolute nature generates recurring postmodern markers — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 28; Burroughs’s work spans both modernist and postmodern positions simultaneously — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 607; Post-2008 culture remains dominated by pre-crash aesthetic forms — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1595 (+12 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The modern’s present-absolute nature generates recurring postmodern markers — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 28; Burroughs’s work spans both modernist and postmodern positions simultaneously — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 607; Post-2008 culture remains dominated by pre-crash aesthetic forms — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1595 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Defining Postmodernism as internal to Modernism abandons its periodizing claim #complicates (0.80)
• Modernism pursues the New substantively while postmodernism only clocks variations #complicates (0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 8
• Modernism reacts to lost totality with nostalgia while postmodernism stops looking backward. #complicates (0.76) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 98
• Postmodernism abolishes the inside-outside distinction that modernism still presupposed #complicates (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 259
• Postmodern cultures lack a stylistic norm that modernist deviation presupposed #complicates (0.74) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 76
• Postmodernism marks a fundamental mutation of culture’s social function #complicates (0.73) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 156