A literary work that emphasizes performance as its primary medium of expression.

This worldview believes that reality consists only of what can be experienced through our five senses.

The postmodernist trait that explains why happiness and the good life are defined in terms of surrounding oneself with a community and meaningful relationships

The author intimately involved in the revolutions of his age, both as a correspondent and a participant.

"The canoe of his grandfather, plastered over and over, and a splintered hole broken in it. This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal."

The subject addressed by a literary work

This worldview sees life as incredibly absurd, aimless, and lacking objective meaning or value.

This postmodernist trait explains that any one "big story" narrative is oppressive.

The leader of a new school of poetry called the Imagist movement.

Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings? Only get rid of Man, and the produce of our labour would be our own. Almost overnight we could become rich and free. What then must we do? Why, work night and day, body and soul, for the overthrow of the human race!"

What is expressed through a literary work

The worldview that believes their might be a supernatural realm, but God is understood to be one with the universe, or else He is replaced by gods, goddesses, and spirits.

Postmodernists explain this trait when they state that we are all just living in a graveyard of lost absolutes and lost peace; however, we shouldn't just lay down and die.

The author who penned one of the most influential anti-war pieces ever written.

"Calm-indeed the calmest-reflection might be better than the most confused decisions."

The audience receives the author's meaning through various elements of form which he uses to embody and convey them.

This worldview that believes whatever promotes progress and (or) happiness for the most people within a community is right, and whatever hinders these is wrong.

The postmodernist trait explaining that since we cannot know what is actually true and do not know which statements correspond to truth, what is true is simply what is useful.

This author achieved recognition at Princeton for his literary abilities as a member of the musical-comedy-dramatic society known as the Triangle Club.

"It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men."

An element in artistry in which everything in a literary work is moving forward together towards one goal, without any stray ends or stragglers.

This worldview believes that the world is all we have, there is no hope for any of us to experience something more than simply material existence on earth.

Postmodern works often display this trait through an attitude that truth about reality is forever hidden from us.

The author who took time off Stanford to pay his tuition through manual labor, chiefly in the company of migrant workers.

"To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, where the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having their fingers pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy.