Self Awareness
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Self Awareness
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In this episode I discuss the most basic defining characteristic of postmodernism, which is acute self-awareness. I explain how postmodernism, as a response to modernism, is fundamentally about figuring out how we want to create literature in a world where all accepted prescriptive and proscriptive norms have been eliminated. I take a broad set of a dozen examples to show the many forms in which this self-awareness can manifest. Books discussed include Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig, Pure Drivel by Steve Martin, The Universe and Other Fictions by Paul West, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, End Zone by Don DeLillo, The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists by Gideon DeFoe, Perchance to Dream by Robert B. Parker, The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde, The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, The Archivist by Martha Cooley, and Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon.