Historiographic contextual self-awareness already defined major Modernism

Evidence

Eliot is in no sense exceptional among the major Modernists in this concern for placing himself with respect to ‘the larger Western tradition’, as any acquaintance with the work, say, of Joyce or Schönberg or Picasso will confirm. It is, therefore, difficult to be persuaded by Linda Hutcheon’s claim that ‘postmodernism goes beyond self-reflexivity to situate discourse in a broader context.’ — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 89