Rehabilitative Literature - A Postmodernist Story مقاله

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My colleague Professor Hieknener at Johns Hopkins University, although he does not use the term postmodernist, clearly has such a feeling in his study of American modernist writers (The Domestic World, 1975): after a chapter on William Faulkner, titled "The Last Novelist," he sets aside Nabokov, Pynchon, and Barthes with a kind of regret. Now, as a prolific writer who takes cues from Eliot, Joyce, Kafka, and other great modernists, as someone who today bears the label of postmodernist, someone who truly possesses distinct and undoubtedly primitive ideas about this term—let us set aside the meaning one could hold for it, namely the description of anything very good, in a very good way—I am grateful to people like Professor Graff who do not consider their own categories to be self-defining. S. Eliot's words regarding James Joyce's Ulysses); also the fundamental disruption of the linear flow of the story; the disillusionment with conventional expectations regarding the unity and coherence of plot and character and the resulting causal "extension"; the use of ironic synonyms and ambiguity to present a philosophical and moral "meaning" of the literary act; the selection of an epistemological tone of self-mockery, which targets the naive appearances of bourgeois rationality; the conflict between innate intuition and objective, public, and rational discourse; and the tendency toward subjective distortion to show the gradual destruction of the objective social world of the nineteenth-century bourgeoisie.