CD a postmodernist? (is Re: JS

[jbor]

Fredric Jameson: "a postmodern Dickens swims into view when we recall ...
Walter Bagehot's comment on him: 'London is like a newspaper. Everything is
there and everything is disconnected.'"
(*Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism*, p. 429, n. 38.)

MalignD, Heikki and yourself are in good company it seems.

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>From: "Dave Monroe" <monroe at mpm.edu>
>Subject: Re: JS
>Date: Fri, Jun 30, 2000, 9:48 AM
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> Certainly, the sprawling, encycolpedic and even episodic complexity of
> Gravity's Rainbow is Dickensian, esp., er, Bleak Housean (BH being sort of
> proto pomo, no?  That constant, labyrinthine deferral ...).  But GR's London
> winter scenes, in particular, very reminisecent indeed of the man who
> brought you Christmas as we know it ...