Post-modernism noun an artistic movement that pushes many features of modernism to new, more playful extremes, rejecting modernism's tendency toward nihilistic pessimism and replacing it with a more comfortable acceptance of the solipsistic nature of the life. . There is also a tendency toward playful self-referentiality and witty intertextualization. postmodernist noun, adj. A worldview characterized by the belief that truth does not exist in any objective sense but is created rather than discovered. »… Truth is “created by the specific culture and exists only in that culture. Therefore, any system or statement that attempts to communicate truth is a power play, an effort to dominate other cultures. Allusions to Shakespeare, in particular, are numerous in English literature, but also simply in the press, which continues to produce titles with more or less titles. less oblique allusions to literary titles and slogans. This is called intertextuality. Intertext is that part or region of overlapping texts, the border zone through which texts coincide with each other. intertextuality noun, literary criticism 1 extent to which a text, play, film, work of art, etc., uses references. or allusions to one or more other works. 2 the use of this technique by an author, director, artist, text, etc.ULIKS-The relative ease of reading this novel in 1922 compared to a more current attempt is a result of the smaller size of the canon in 1922. At a late date To the 20th century reader, the intertextuality of Ulysses seems impossibly immense, but a catalog of these allusions will reveal that their sources are very specific. Ulysses mainly refers to Homer, Plato and Aristotle, the Bible, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Shakespeare and Milton. This is by no means a definitive list, but it contains all the most important works and it is quite short. These were naturally books well known in detail to any educated person in the English-speaking world, and so for an educated reader at that time the references would have been much more accessible. On the other hand, education today is no longer so standardized; these works survive, but interest in them has waned. New canons appeared to accompany the more traditional one. Colonial and postcolonial writers, women writers, feminist writers, African American writers, queer theory writers, to name a few, have all been recognized and added to various canons, until that education in the English-speaking world no longer guarantees detailed knowledge of the same very specific canon.