Reaching Toward Postmodernism
By Jandy • Aug 17th, 2007 • Category: Articles, LiteraturePostmodernism is often seen as a rejection of the totalizing project of modernism and of the Enlightenment; however, literary modernism as exemplified in the works of Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, and others, are as skeptical of the Enlightenment project as postmodernism. This article argues that postmodernism continues to be concerned with the same issues as literary modernism, but simply takes the issues further.
