The Death of Postmodernism And Beyond
Alan Kirby says postmodernism is dead and buried. In its place comes a new paradigm of authority and knowledge formed under the pressure of new technologies and contemporary social forces.
I have in front of me a module description downloaded from a British university English department's website. It includes details of assignments and a week-by-week reading list for the optional module Postmodern Fictions', and if the university is to remain nameless here it's not because the module is in any way shameful but that it handily represents modules or module parts which will be taught in virtually every English department in the land this coming academic year. It assumes that postmodernism is alive, thriving and kicking: it says it will introduce "the general topics of postmodernism' and postmodernity' by examining their relationship to the contemporary writing of fiction". This might suggest that postmodernism is contemporary, but the......
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