The World Wide Web is almost a paradigm case of the way postmodern knowledge works. Among the many congruences between hypertext and postmodernity are the idea of text as "nonlinear, or, more properly as multilinear or multisequential", the conception of "textual openness, intertextuality, and the irrelevance of distinctions between inside and outside a particular text", and the cultivation of ...

Bernardo Carvalho’s Brazilian novel, O sol se põe em São Paulo [The Sun Sets in Paulo, 2007], alongside Shiozaki Shōhei’s Japanese film, Akaneiro no yakusoku: Sanba do kingyo (Goldfish Go Home, 2012), create postmodern narratives that render dekasegi, or migrant laborers, similar to their depictions historical archives: invisible and unable emerge from the shadows. Through scenarios of discover...

Intertextuality became one of the most popular and important terms in culture 20th century. It is usually considered connection with postmodernism its ironic nature. Contemporary writing still intertextual, though far from being postmodern. Moreover, even some medieval texts appear to operate intertextual tools systematically. The article presents examples intertextuality different novels both ...