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post-hiˈstoric, a.
[f. post- B. 1 b, after prehistoric.]
Of, belonging to, or pertaining to, an imagined period beyond the close of recorded history or otherwise subsequent to the present historical period; also transf. Hence ˈpost-history.
1918S. Graham Quest of Face i. 50 There never leaves his eyes the gleam of something beyond this time, the post-historic. 1953S. Spender Creative Element 133 We live in an epoch without historic precedent, which may indeed be a kind of post-history. 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Nov. 689/3 When the scholars of post-historic China or India study English literature in the twentieth century. 1961L. Mumford City in Hist. i. 4 His dehumanized alter ego, ‘Post-historic Man’. 1977N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 Oct. 31/1 Benjamin's study of what might be called the post-history or the afterlife of works of literature has spurred the recent interest in the ‘history of reception’ among younger critics in Germany. |