GRGR(30): You will want cause and effect.

[Dave Monroe]

Well, again, my advice to all concerned, for what littlke it is indeed worth, would
be not to get too conecrned with the modernism/postmodernism thing, much less
whether of not Pynchon is a postmodern author, much less a postmodernist, whether or
not his texts are postmodern, and so forth and so on, unless you have some pressing
reason to do so.  Think of the distinction, the set of distinctions, as a useful
heuristic, handy for genrating ideas, interpretations, in short, readings, but
something that it might well not be necessary to commit yrself to, ceratinly not if
you've no professional stake in the matter.  But, again, if you're having problems
with determining what ":postmodernism," "postmodernity" might be, well, keep in
mind, conceots like "modernism," "modernity," "the ranaissance," 'the baroque," "the
medieval," "realism," "naturalism," "romanticism," "classicism," wahtever, aren't
necessarily any better developed, we've just become used to them, comfortable with
them, perhaps we've even reified them, through sheer repetition, if nothing else ...
but a few useful works on the subject nonetheless ...

--Astradur Eysteinsson, The Concept of Modernism
--Matei Calinescu, Five Faces of Modernity
--Ihab Hassan, The Postmodern Turn
--Christopher Butler, After the Wake: An Essay on the Contemporary Avant-Garde