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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, DJ-Anonyme@... wrote:
> I agree with most of what you say (and would add
Tristram Shandy to your
> examples of postmodernism before there as even a
modernism;
Agreed. Tristram Shandy is a very good example.
>it was
> clearly there from the very beginning of the novel),
but I'd like to
> quibble with your assertion that "the story isn't
serious." Isn't meant
> to be a serious example of the genre it is
deconstructing, maybe,
It isn't serious in the sense that you're not supposed to
believe in the characters and situations as people and things
that happen to actual people. The literary seriousness or the
seriousness of the author are a different matter. I suppose
Cervantes and Sterne were serious in that respect. How would
we know, though?
but I
> find it very hard to think of Paul Auster's New York
Trilogy, for
> example, as anything less than serious.
Do you believe in the characters and situations? I
can't.
>And when it comes to postmodern
> criticism, well, you don't get much more serious
than Lyotard and/or
> Jameson.
>
Their criticism is serious, of course, in the sense of not
meant as a joke or easily interpretable as one.
Best,
mrt
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