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  #1 Allie Fiasconaro on 09 Dec 09

   

  http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/07/the-mostly-complete-annotated-and-essential-postmodern-reading-list.html
  This article highlights the '61 essential postmodern reads' with my favorite quote "In looking at the attributes of the essential postmodern reads, we found some were downright contradictory". Since isn't that what post modernity is? A lack of really knowing what post modernity truly is. The best part about this 61 essential reads of post modern literature is it's annotation with the attributes of what characterizes are post modern such as: 'author is a character, self-contradicting plot, disrupts/plays with form, comments on it's own bookishness, plays with language, includes fictional artifices, blurs reality and fiction, historical falsehoods references to other fictional works, more than 1,000 pages, less than 200 pages, postmodern progenitor'. Not surprisingly Franz Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' makes the list along with Vladimir Nabokov's 'Pale Fire'. Under each book is listed the characteristics I listed above with a picture of what annotation fits the one of the book displayed. This provides a postmodern way to list postmodern novels with using annotations and pictures to categorize the contradicting world of postmodern ideals.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner"><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/07/the-mostly-complete-annotated-and-essential-postmodern-reading-list.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/07/the-mostly-complete-annotated-and-essential-postmodern-reading-list.html</a> <br /> This article highlights the '61 essential postmodern reads' with my favorite quote "In looking at the attributes of the essential postmodern reads, we found some were downright contradictory". Since isn't that what post modernity is? A lack of really knowing what post modernity truly is. The best part about this 61 essential reads of post modern literature is it's annotation with the attributes of what characterizes are post modern such as: 'author is a character, self-contradicting plot, disrupts/plays with form, comments on it's own bookishness, plays with language, includes fictional artifices, blurs reality and fiction, historical falsehoods references to other fictional works, more than 1,000 pages, less than 200 pages, postmodern progenitor'. Not surprisingly Franz Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' makes the list along with Vladimir Nabokov's 'Pale Fire'. Under each book is listed the characteristics I listed above with a picture of what annotation fits the one of the book displayed. This provides a postmodern way to list postmodern novels with using annotations and pictures to categorize the contradicting world of postmodern ideals.</div>

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