How to Embrace phoniness
Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Wed, 07 Oct 1998 20:07:52 -0400
Jake Shafer wrote:
> I
> entertained notions of declaring him a pre-post-modernist (an idea which
> first appeared in a previous e-mail thread on this list) but while it
> makes a frightfully good argument it wasn't mine so I let it be.
That's rather a vague topic to be declared the exclusive intellectual
property of one individual post-er. Besides, there are several ways to
approach the topic, and at least two or three million different
definitions of postmodernism (John nods excitedly as the dark and
terrible clouds of a new thread on postmodernism gather and rumble and
bulge on the horrible horizon). Sounds interesting. A guy named Wenke
published a book on Sal's short fiction that touches on the issue, and I
know he's interested in JDS-as-sortof-postmodernist. But he never
really addreses anythign directly. Something worthy of exploration,
especially if it's done--and surely it will be--with the loving care of
a devoted reader.
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Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu