Abstract
Linda Hutcheon considers the term postmodernism as one of the 'most over and under-defined' in her poetics of postmodernism. Some consider the so-called postmodern movement as too heterogeneous to be even called a coherent system of thought, others define anything that is contemporary as post-modern. The difficulty to define postmodernism is due to three main features. First, the field of study of postmodernism is quite wide, ranging from sociological analysis to architecture and literary criticism. Second, postmodernism itself may be seen as the 'theorisation of the limits of theory' according to Gilbert Larochelle, it challenges theory and global explanations while putting an emphasis on pluralism, discontinuity, dislocation and antitotalisation. It is therefore delicate to summarise the postmodern ideas in one simple theory. Finally, it is quite hard to establish the postmodernist corpus itself, as most authors categorised as postmodernists do not consider themselves as affiliated to a specific movement of thought.
