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Postmodernism, Genre or Pop? Defining Postmodernism through Heart of Darkness What is Postmodernism? Andy Crouch from Christianity Today describes Postmodernism as anything, everything, and nothing, an academic Rorschach blot on which nervous modernists and others project all their fantasies, both benign and terrifying. Crouch goes on to explain how Postmodernism entails what an author is most afraid of while on the other hand promises that which they most secretly desire. This definition, in its twirling …

…twentieth-century English-language literature in which the distinction between modernism and postmodernism will come to seem much less significant than--or will perhaps be subsumed by--the division of the century into periods before and after the global expansion of English-language literature. This quote defines my central argument that in the future Postmodernism and Modernism will be considered a single movement. The 20th century was an explosion of literary genius, and hopefully, they will all be remembered together.