Briti kirjandus 20.-21. sajand kordamisküsimused vastustega
24. Postmodernism as a life-style. Fiction that goes beyond literature. Jeanette Winteron:
self-conscious, self-advertising writer. Winterson's postmodernism: gender blending,
identity as a construct, Cyberspace and 21st-century fiction.
Postmodernism as a life-style. As a sociological concern, postmodernism describes a range of life
styles adopted by emerging urban middle classes, who behave in a similar fashion to Walter
Benjamin's flaneurs, the socially rootless individuals who strolled through the nineteenth century
Parisian landscape reflecting on surface meanings they found in arcades, department stores, trams
etc. This is a situation which has developed in the consumer culture of contemporary cities.
Because of the influence of the city, all our lives (regardless of where we live) become urban. It
influences our views on how we live and how we perceive the world. There is a predominant belief