End-of-epoch crisis feeling was endemic to modernism, not postmodernism.
Evidence
Thus T. S. Eliot in his famous 1923 review of Ulysses describes Joyce’s use of myth as ‘simply a way of controlling, of ordering, of giving a shape and a significance to the immense panorama of futility and anarchy that is contemporary history’. Frank Kermode argues that what he calls ‘the sense of an ending’, the feeling of being at the end of an epoch, ‘the mood of end-dominated crisis’ is ‘endemic to what we call modernism’. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 62
Categorization
- XREF: Eliot’s ‘mythic method’ as anti-historicist techne parallels Joyce’s own practice; useful against Jameson’s claim that postmodernism uniquely abandons depth for surface. — connects to: Postmodernism is a tendency within late modernism, not its successor — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 236; Postmodernism precedes and enables modernism rather than following it. — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 502; Postmodernism’s pessimism was a local European crisis wrongly universalized (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Postmodernism is a tendency within late modernism, not its successor
#corroborates(0.82) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 236 - Postmodernism’s pessimism was a local European crisis wrongly universalized
#qualifies(0.78) - Postmodernism precedes and enables modernism rather than following it.
#exemplifies(0.75) — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 502