In Literature
Since postmodernism, the term reprise has been borrowed from musical terminology to be used in literary criticism by Christian Moraru:
with postmodern authors or scriptors, representation-as-repetition challenges representation-as-origination. They set forth the alternate model of an esthétique du recyclage Anything but "neoclassical" or humbly imitative, driven by a complex cultural-aesthetic agenda, this model plays upon discriminate and polemical "repetition," upon a critical reprise, to borrow—or reprise, in my turn—a term from music and adapt it to underscore the strategic difference toward which postmodernism's repetitive acts are frequently geared. postmodernism's self-acknowledged reprises ever so oftern surprise us with their unexpected plot twists, media mixes, and oder deflections, inflections, and irreverent revisions, both textual and contextual, sociocultural. —Christian Moraru,From the postmodern perspective, reprise is a fundamental device in the whole history of art.
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