| Modernism | Postmodernism |
| romanticism/symbolism | paraphysics/Dadaism |
| purpose | play |
| design | chance |
| hierarchy | anarchy |
| matery, logos | exhaustion, silence |
| art object, finished word | process, performance |
| distance | participation |
| creation, totalization | deconstruction |
| synthesis | antithesis |
| presence | absence |
| centering | dispersal |
| genre, boundary | text, intertext |
| semantics | rhetoric |
| paradigm | syntagm |
| hypotaxis | parataxis |
| metaphor | metonymy |
| selection | combination |
| depth | surface |
| interpretation | against interpretation |
| reading | misreading |
| signified | signifier |
| lisible (readerly) | scriptible |
| narrative | anti-narrative |
| grande histoire | petite histoire |
| master code | idiolect |
| symptom | desire |
| type | mutant |
| genital, phallic | polymorphous |
| paranoia | schizophrenia |
| origin, cause | difference-difference |
| God the Father | The Holy Ghost |
| Metaphysics | irony |
| determinacy | indeterminacy |
| transcendence | immanence |
Hassan “The Culture of Postmodernism” Theory, Culture, and Society, V 2 1985, 123-4.
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