Fragmentation
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- "If one accepts fragmentation as a basic feature of postmodernism, one has to conclude that this fragmentation was already a feature of modernism." --Sholem Stein
In literature, fragmentation is a broad term for literary techniques that break up the text or narrative. Fragmentation is characteristic of postmodernism. Related techniques are collage and nonlinear narrative.
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deconstruction - modernism - postmodernism - metanarrative - nonlinearity - technique
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