Author: Brian McHale

Brian McHale is professor of English at the Ohio State University. The author of two books on postmodernist fiction and one on postmodernist long poems, he is most recently co-editor, with Randall Stevenson, of the Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English (2006). An essay related to the present one, entitled "1966 Nervous Breakdown, or, When Did Postmodernism Begin?" is forthcoming in Modern Language Quarterly.

Essays in EBR by Brian McHale

2007-12-20

What Was Postmodernism?

Brian McHale looks back on the movement in "What Was Postmodernism?" He contrasts postmodernism's canonization with critical constructions of modernism, and moves through contemporary painting to reflect on intersections between the violence of recent history and postmodernism, as the postwar world lived "in the ruins of our own civilization, if only in our imaginations."

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Author: Brian McHale

Essays in EBR by Brian McHale

What Was Postmodernism?

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