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

[Terrance]

Dave Monroe wrote:
> 
> --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


Stefan Mattessich's 1985 paper, "What is Post-Mosernism"?
Delivered at Northwestern in October 1985. Sorry, can't find
it now, but this an excellent introductory essay, now a book
I think, for the our current discussion. 

Take a look at the language of McHale, he describes the
reader of GR as, "conned, bullied, betrayed, embarrassed,
conditioned, lured, offended, and he applies the most
horrible metaphors in GR to the reader as if the reader were
a character, a dog or one "fox" in the narrative. The reader
has been conditioned and the painful de-conditioning  is
beyond the zero, yes the reader becomes, first paranoid and
next  anti-paranoid, he quotes GR.343, "If there is
something comforting - religious - if you want - about
paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing
is connected  to anything, a condition not many of us can
bear for long." This is not only a (mis)application of the
metaphor in GR, not to mention the terms Paranoia and
Anti-paranoia, it's good evidence against Modernist reading
of Postmodernist texts.