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Postmodernism in literature is typically distinguished from High Modernism by:
AReligious orthodoxy
BPlayful self-reference and unstable narrative authority
CNeo-classical decorum
DStrict allegorical structure
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Playful self-reference and unstable narrative authority
1. Postmodernism extends Modernist fragmentation into self-aware textual play.
2. It tends to dissolve the totalising ambition of High Modernism.
3. The Modern + Postmodern bucket presupposes this critical distinction.
_Source: Coverage brief — Modernist canon — "Modern + Postmodern (literary period)"_