--- david david <
davividavid@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Those who care about this stuff might check
out
> Lyotard's "The Postmodern Condition" as
one
> interesting starting place...
A relatively easy & perhaps not too controversial way of
conceiving PM comes from the Lyotard: "Simplifying to the
extreme, I define 'postmodern' as incredulity toward
metanarratives" (Postmodern Condition xxiv).
> As for what constitutes postmodern fiction, I am
not
> sure. So much has been given the label and it's
all
> so different....Bartheleme, for one..., wrote
some
> stories i like and some that i don't. The one
with
> the gerbil at the end was pretty fucking
funny.
So was SNOW WHITE (though it's been ten years since I've read
it, & so it may well be that to which you refer as "the
one with the gerbil").
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