Fragmentation, Genre Mutation, And Interpretative Freedom In Postmodern English Literature

English itself is high in this article for a look of the historical background, development, and theoretical foundations of postmodernism as they relate to literature in English. It focuses on key differences between modernism and postmodernism–their attitudes towards tradition; meaning; genre; authorship; and cultural hierarchy, to name a few. Citation: This study has explored, how globalization, technological advancement and cultural hybridization led to post-modern thought. In particular, important postmodern ideas such as the "death of the author," intertextuality, deconstruction, and genre mutation are given special attention. The paper explains the changing function of the reader, who now takes the interpretative activity over which the reader left off as the central part of postmodernistic literature process. Beneath this, the article reflects upon the potential shift away from postmodernism into more recent movements, signalled in the writing to follow by metamodernism and metarealism, which suggest a newness and ongoingness of literary/literary-theoretical development.