Postmodernism noun a movement in the arts that takes many features of Modernism to new and more playful extremes, rejecting Modernism's tendency toward nihilistic pessimism and replacing it with a more comfortable acceptance of the solipsistic nature of life. There is also a propensity for mischievous 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 seeks to communicate the truth is a power play, an attempt to dominate other cultures. Allusions to Shakespeare, in particular, are numerous in English literature, but also simply in the press, which continues to churn out titles with more or less oblique allusions to literary titles and slogans. This is called intertextuality. The intertext is that part or region of overlapping texts, the border area where the texts coincide with each other. intertextuality noun, literary criticism 1 the extent to which a particular text, play, film, work of art, etc. makes use of references or allusions to another work or works. 2 the use of this technique by an author, director, artist, text, etc.ULIKS-The comparative ease of reading this novel in 1922 versus a more current attempt is a result of the small size of the canon in 1922. Until late To twentieth-century readers the intertextuality of Ulysses seems incredibly 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 is quite short. These were of course the books well known in detail by anyone educated in the English-speaking world, and so for an educated reader in this period the references would have been much more accessible. On the other hand, today education is no longer so standardized; these works remain, but interest in them has waned. New canons have arisen to accompany the more traditional one. Colonial and postcolonial writers, novelists, feminist writers, African American writers, queer theory writers, to name just a few, have all been recognized and placed within various canons, until education in the English-speaking world no longer warrants detailed knowledge of the same very canon. specific.