The Pomo argument actually works quite well with Ulysses. It's a modernist novel because of all the typical reasons you can come up with, BUT it also very frequently mocked conventional academic and artistic notions as well, downplaying the function of "high art"
It is true. It’s possible to say that he “anticipated” or invented what became known as “postmodernism” in comics books like “Watchmen” or David Foster Wallace. Lots of in-jokes & historical references. I think this more fun when you’re young bc it makes you feel “in on” a secrethttps://twitter.com/jbthazard/status/1015138627356065793 …
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At times it reminds me of Bataille's La littérature et le mal, this idea that high art is just a form of "play" that artists and academics are always trying to repress. Plus they were both fans of Nietzsche so maybe "play" means more than I figure outhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpFSXAdlEYY …
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This is arguably in direct contrast with Joyce's famous edict that "literature is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man" but, I guess I'm still toying with these notions
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