What is Postmodern Literature, Anyway?
What is Postmodern Literature, Anyway? Friday July 17, 2009 So what exactly is Postmodern Literature? The Los Angeles Times’ Carolyn Kellogg says it’s hard to pin down and yet offers a number of possible attributes such as • author is a character • blurs reality and fiction • comments on its own bookishness • plays with language • disrupts/plays with form before listing 61 Essential Postmodern Reads, which range from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to Geoff Dyer’s Out of Sheer Rage, from Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter to Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated. It’s a great list of books – some I’ve re
