Post Modernism

[Paul Mackin]

On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Terrance F. Flaherty wrote:

> 
> 
> JBFRAME at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > An essay on Pynchon & post modernism by Brian McHale:
> >
> > http://spinoza.tau.ac.il/hci/pub/poetics/art/mod6.html
> 
> We are getting there. Perhaps in the next six months critics
> will begin calling GR Modern? Traditional? Thanks, I like
> this essay, although McHale seems unwilling to toss the
> post-modern shell game out completely--the postmodern
> ontological.
> 
> "it is clear that it will not do simply to set Post-Modern
> fiction in opposition to the whole prior development of
> narrative."
> 
> No it will not do it will not do it will not do any more...

Wonder if McHale would still (how many years later) be into distinctions
between dream and waking, between fictive reality and fictive fantacy. Has
not postmodernism (or whatever we want to call current reader expectation) 
come some  way from the late seventies. I don't necessarity have a
firm opinion--just asking.

		P.