Converse of object

• explore: The purpose of this meeting was to explore postmodern generational issues and their effect on the world mission movement.

• define: Lyotard defines the postmodern as the process of developing a new epistemology that responds to new conditions of knowledge ( Kellner 1990 ).

• include: His research interests include postmodern and contemporary literature and literary theory.

• make: Knowing these images are empty makes the practice postmodern.

Adjective modifier

• first: What does Lyotard mean when he claims that ' a work can become modern only if it is first postmodern ' ?

Modifies a noun

• relativism: Here Halsey's own perspective, of what I take to be a postmodern relativism, comes to the fore.

• critique: The postmodern critique reminds us all that the future is not in the past!

• sociology: The first three appeared in the 60s - alas, the 60s also had to be the years for postmodern sociology to appear.

• irony: Love the postmodern irony of the Tesco's tissues.

• feminism: Rather than reversing the dualism, postmodern feminism seeks to dissolve the distinction.

• theorist: For postmodern theorists, change is above all transformation.

Noun used with modifier

• eratio: He lives in New York City where he edits the online journal, eratio postmodern poetry.

Possessives

• ethic: His research interests include postcolonial theory, ' postmodern ' ethics, the critique of contemporary culture and all aspects of subjectivity.

Possessives

• adjective: Certainly there should have been a chapter on Hayden White, the most significant historian who might qualify for the adjective ' postmodern ' .

• today: The qualities for which he is celebrated by today's postmodern cultural magpies are the very ones that cost him half his career.