"In your time the young were post-Marxists
and their fathers pre-Marxists."
G. B. Shaw Buoyant Billions, 1949, p.17
"It may be useful, then, to have a new look
at the obvious as it appeared, not to
post-Marxist historians, but to intelligent
observers at the time."
M. H. Abrams in N. Frye
Romanticism Reconsidered, 1963, p.29
K. Jaszczolt writes:
>Call for Papers
>Abstracts are invited for
>the 8th International Pragmatics Conference,
>Toronto, Canada, 13-18 July 2003
>to contribute to the panel
>'Temporality and Post-Gricean Pragmatics'.
>The panel organizer will be
>happy to provide feedback and suggestions
>before the final submission.
S. Attardo was recently enquiring about the earliest uses of
'post-Gricean'. Find above the lattest.
-- Neo-Griceans (and Griceans) need not apply?
Incidentally, it is interesting to compare 'post-Gricean' with
'post-Chomskyan' as per the title of Cambridge author T. Moore in his
_Understanding language: towards a post-Chomskyan linguistics_ (co-authored
with C. Carling). (and cfr. OED quotes below). It was my guess that
"post-X" is okay if used when X is dead, but "post-Chomskyan" proves to be
an interesting exception to that guess.
Best,
JL
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The OED quotes for 'post-' include:
1936 J. R. Kantor Objective Psychol Gram., p.100:
"The post-Aristotelian subjectivists
divided the individual into soul and body."
1949 J. R. Firth in Archivum Linguisticum I. 110
"Slav linguistics are certainly post-Saussurean
and showing signs even in America of becoming
post-Bloomfield."
[This is an interesting quote. Note it's 'post-Bloomfield' rather than
'post-BloomfieldIAN', and that it's 1949, the year Bloomfield died, so one
is not sure if Firth was also providing an exception to my guess.]
1961 F. W. Householder in Saporta & Bastian
Psycholinguistics 16/1
"It would seem to a naive observer that the
question `what is the grammar for?' is an
obvious one. Nevertheless, until recent years,
no serious attempt to answer it seems to have
been made by post-Bloomfieldian linguists."
1879 J. Jacobs in 19th Cent. Sept. 490
"The analogous Triune Deity of post-Buddhistic
Brahmanism."
1963 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Mar. 150/1
"The general context of post-Cartesian thought."
"post-Chaucerian" =
"after the lifetime of Chaucer; specially,
of a poet writing after, and influenced by, Chaucer.
1966 Eng. Stud. XLVII. 172
"The foregoing are the only instances of
post-Chaucerian spiced conscience that
I have been able to discover."
1970 Jrnl. Linguistics VI. 130
"With a side glance at some post-Chomskyan developments."
1975 Amer. Speech 1973 XLVIII154
"According to the post-Chomskyan revisionist
Charles J. Fillmore, however, `there are
reasons for questioning the deep-structure
validity of the traditional division between
subject and predicate'."
1864 Pusey Lect. Daniel 542
"Literature collected in post-Christian
times by the Sassanidae."
1899 T. Veblen Theory of Leisure Class 288
"The ostensibly post-Darwinian concept of
a meliorative trend in the process of evolution."
post-Einsteinian = "subsequent to the work of
Einstein; involving or pertaining to concepts
developed later than the theories of relativity."
1938 S. Chase Tyranny of Words, p.89
"Bridgman develops various concepts for `length'
in post-Einsteinian terms."
1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 304/2
"This most delightful of the post-Elizabethan poets."
[It can't be Thom Gunn]
post-Freudian = As a noun:
"someone whose psychotherapeutic ideas
or practice have developed and diverged
from strictly Freudian doctrine; someone
whose views have been influenced as a result
of Freudian theory". As an adj.: "subsequent
to the impact and influence of Freudian ideas."
(earliest quotes for each use below)
1938 Essays & Stud. 1937 XXIII. 82
"He [sc. Balzac] had little to learn of
normal psychology from the post-Freudians."
1964 E. Becker in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 114
"Mills has here failed to push on to a fully
post-Freudian social psychology."
1810 C. Lamb Lett. II. 97,
"I should suspect these personifications
are the Translator's. They sound post-Homeric."
1960 J. Bayley Characters of Love, p.258
"Both D. H. Lawrence and E. M. Forster use
them [sc. symbolic patterns] in a discernibly
post-Jamesian manner."
1843 Mill Logic I. i. iii. 79
"His philosophical views are generally those
of the post-Kantian movement, represented by
Schelling and Hegel."
1960 New Left Rev. May-June 5/1
"The more sophisticated elaboration of
post-Keynesian evolutionary theory."
1949 G. B. Shaw Buoyant Billions, p. 17
"In your time the young were post-Marxists
and their fathers pre-Marxists."
1963 MH Abrams in N Frye Romanticism Reconsidered 29
"It may be useful, then, to have a new look
at the obvious as it appeared, not to post-Marxist
historians, but to intelligent observers at the time."
1865 Mill Exam. Hamilton's Philos. xxvii. 542
"Applied mathematics in its post-Newtonian
development does nothing to strengthen these errors."
1928 A. Huxley in Vogue 28 Nov. 122/3
"A form which the critical intelligence of
post-Nietzschean youth can respect."
1885 E. Hatch in Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 427/1
"In the later and the probably post-Pauline
epistles the apocalyptic elements are rare."
1899 Hobson Ruskin 27
"The great masters of the post-Raphaelite
schools in Italy and in England."
1949.J. R. Firth in Archivum Linguisticum I. 110
"Slav linguistics are certainly post-Saussurean
and showing signs even in America of becoming
post-Bloomfield."
1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Jan. 27/1
"It is not clear how much of the post-Stalinist
course in the Soviet Union would fall under
the same condemnation."
1938 H. Palmer Post-Victorian Poetry p. ix,
"Because of the amount of space that has been
taken up by the verse dating from 1900
the subject-matter seems to justify the
selection of the title, Post-Victorian Poetry."
1965 New Statesman 7 May 736/1
"The technical maerlée of early Renaissance
polyphony and sensuous post-Wagnerian harmony."
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