Post Modernism

[Derek C. Maus]

On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Paul Mackin wrote:

> 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.

>From what I remember about his book CONSTRUCTING POSTMODERNISM (1992,
Routledge), it sounded like he was still perfectly willing to admit such a
distinction, albeit with even more of a caveat that it is essentially all
the product of applied conscious reasoning. Not to say that sleep is an
invention of the human intellect, but that all the various permutations of
human understanding of reality, fantasy, dream, etc. are all constructed
and relatively unique to individuals. 

O' course, it's been about three years and a lot of other books since I
read this and I could be way off base, but I seem to remember that being
the crux of the biscuit in his more recent work as well.

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