The quintessence of Postmodernism crammed into tiny microchapters. What it is. How it manifests itself. The leitmotiv here is the "B effect" vs. the "C effect". The B effect is here defined as a needlessly catastrophic sense of critical & creative crisis propounded by such writers as Burger, Bonita-Oliver, Barthes, Baudrillard etc.; verses the C effect, a more optimistic hypothesis of postmodernist practice, which Zurbrugg associates with John Cage among others. Postmodernism posited not as a doomsday machine, a sterile lunar landscape, but rather as a source of insight into human experience, just as other literary -isms have been.--as
This review originally appeared in TapRoot Reviews #5,
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