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>>The postmodern subject is, by its own definition, eclectic, a pastische
>>(reworkings of old cultures and social backgrounds) and, more importantly,
>>undefinable.
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>if this is the case, isn't "postmodern subject" an oxymoron?
>

Given the above definition: absolutely.  However, the postmodern subject is
not "undefinable" -- perception requires us to place definitions upon
everything we attempt to conceive, so to declare that something defies
definition is akin to declaring a celebration for ignorance ("ignorance is
bliss").  The problem of the postmodern subject is that it is indeed
definable, on many levels and in many ways: if anything, it is multiply
defined and perhaps then seems "undefinable" in the sense that it is more gray
than black, white, red, yellow,....

Carol

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Carol L. Robinson, Ph.D.
Kent State University - Trumbull
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"Literature, or written language in general, was not the companion
of speech, but its opponent, because it belonged to the open world
of light, space and the eye, not the closed world of sound, time and
the ear. We needed to break out of the ancient prison-house of speech
and one-dimensional temporality, and disport ourselves in the
multi-dimensional spaces of writing or 'textual productivity' instead."
-- Jonathan Rée. I SEE A VOICE: DEAFNESS, LANGUAGE AND THE SENSES (1999)

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