A 2006 Alan Kirby essay describes its death, while it is a result of the merging of spheres of culture under the pressure of multinational capital according to a 1991 Frederic Jameson work.  
Brian McHale wrote a 2000 work on long poems of this type, and in his 1987 work on this type of fiction he defined it as concerning ontological rather than epistemological questions.  A 2006 Alan Kirby essay describes its death, while it is a result of the merging of spheres of culture under the pressure of multinational capital according to a 1991 Frederic Jameson work.  "The Literature of Exhaustion" asks for it to overcome the conflict between realism and irrealism, while the postscript to The Name of the Rose claims that it does not deny, but ironically rereads, the past.  FTP, name this literary and cultural movement that occurred in reaction to modernism.
Brian McHale wrote a 2000 work on long poems of this type, and in his 1987 work on this type of fiction he defined it as concerning ontological rather than epistemological questions.  
{postmodern}ism (3) [DL]