In a Time Magazine review [1] of the new Scorsese documentary "No Direction Home" I came across the word "postromantic."

First Dylan reconfigured the folk song into a political statement as personal as it was universal, writing instant anthems like Blowin' in the Wind and The Times They Are A-Changin'. Then he amped up his surreal postromantic ballads and became a rock star.

The closest entry in my dictionary is :

postero-
prefix.
Posterior.
"Posterosuperior."

Obviously though, this word "postromantic" is a compound of "imposture" and "mantic" meaning "pseudo-shamanistic" or thereabouts.

Does any one have an entry for it?

By the way, it crops up a review of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera (reviewed by none other than the Enigmatic Man, Thomas Pynchon) :

In the postromantic ebb of the 70's and 80's, with everybody now so wised up and even growing paranoid about love, once the magical buzzword of a generation, it is a daring step for any writer to decide to work in love's vernacular, to take it, with all its folly, imprecision and lapses in taste, at all seriously-- that is, as well worth those higher forms of play that we value in fiction.


[1] Richard Corliss, "When He Was On His Own" Time Magazine, September 19, 2005