Rapp's answer, at which he arrives through a series of close examinations of key
postmodernist texts, is that no such grandiose intellectual revolution has taken place.
To use a favourite
postmodernist metaphor, the term itself has become a 'site' of conflicting opinion.
On Lee's reading, Foucault, who is certainly an antifoundationalist with respect to questions of truth and knowledge, "does not really have a '
postmodernist' political agenda"; in fact, according to her, his work "is really meant to enhance, rather than to displace, liberalism as it is practiced" (p.
Like other work articulating intersections between postmodernism and feminism, Michael's project rests on the assertion that the political value of
postmodernist textual strategies, rather than being predetermined, depends on the context of their deployment.
postmodernist logic) or the misrepresentaion of facts, falsification of
In what follows, I will demonstrate that the catalogues in
postmodernist texts, which are usually random and not organized by any recognizable principle, do not provide orientation--at least not orientation in the traditional sense.
Citing Brian McHale's
Postmodernist Fiction, which concentrates on the
postmodernists interest in transgressing ontological boundaries, and noting Stoppards almost trademark interest in metatheatrical devices, Jernigan argues:
I think, to a large extent, it is the general lack of scholarship on
postmodernist poetry that leads to lesser attention to McHale's scholarship of
postmodernist poetry.
In his theoretical chapter, before part one, Sacido examines the defining features of modernist and
postmodernist short fiction, exploring the role of the short story in the rise of modernism in terms of autonomy and subjectivity, and analysing how in postmodernism "interpretation is blocked and representation becomes impossible" (14).
