New book. Postmodern Fiction (i can't remember who by, she or he is a very good writer).
The thesis is basically as follows. Modernists are concerned with works of epistemology (questions of expression, most intimately within thought, usually on a personal level); postmodernists are concerned with questions of ontology (questions experience, what we are, often on a societal level). Writers can cross back and forth between then, or even present both layers in the same work.
The basic assumption of this thesis is, however, that experience and expression are essentially different. It would be a hell of a good book that demonstrates them as the same.
The thesis is basically as follows. Modernists are concerned with works of epistemology (questions of expression, most intimately within thought, usually on a personal level); postmodernists are concerned with questions of ontology (questions experience, what we are, often on a societal level). Writers can cross back and forth between then, or even present both layers in the same work.
The basic assumption of this thesis is, however, that experience and expression are essentially different. It would be a hell of a good book that demonstrates them as the same.
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