At 4:24 PM -0500 15/5/02, KENT JOHNSON wrote:
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>"Now that postmodernism has utterly failed, is it time to return to
>the New Criticism to see if we may still find something important
>there?"
In order to know if post-modernism has failed, I guess we'd have to
know what it is in the first place. Which has always been the rub,
eh? The only precise definition I could ever find was in
architecture. You could well argue that Andrew Motion himself is
poignantly post-modern.
Wasn't one of the tenets of post-modernism a belief that all texts
exist in the present, thus obviating the need to go back anywhere?
And do poets really work this way, anyway? I suspect most of them
are much more chaotic, though maybe I merely project out my own chaos.
Best
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