Why being self-referential means work is post-modern? Those concepts

>>8694169
its the glut of the self you mong
read more Lennitz and Foals

>>8694169
people call Cervantes and Sterne postmodernist all the damn time which is all you need to know about what a fucking useless label it is.

>>8694169
It doesn't but its the one of the only easy ways of showing plebs a sort of common post-modern trope so they cling to it

>>8694169
because post-modernism in literature is very hard to define, so people try to tack things like being self referential onto it.

many authors regarded as post-modern, such as don delillo, detest the term. they think its pointless.

i would have to agree

I think the problem is that postmodernism, due to it's honestly terrible name, is moreso thought as an era (like Modernism, Victorian, etc) as opposed to a genre. Personally, I think it's far more accurate to think of postmodernism as a genre, with elements of it appearing through all of literary history, eventually culminating in the second half of the 20th century.

>>8694169
It's simple. Post modern self reference always highlights the fact that you're reading a book. It only serves to point out the literary functions of the book