I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I don't think anybody's written about it, or very few have, with any verve.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.
Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.
From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.
Postmodernism cost literature its audience.
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.
I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.
I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?
I start with theory rather than people. I don't like novels which have no theoretical or philosophical underpinning. I hate the contemporary novel where people just sit and talk to each other about their relationships.
I am truly bored with 99 per cent of conventional novels. I do think it's a somewhat desiccated form.
I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.