Postmodernism was not the invention of literary critics, but literature can certainly claim to be one of the most important laboratories of postmodernism. Perhaps because of the sheer weight of numbers in literary studies during the 1970s and 1980s, as compared with the numbers of scholars writing or students reading in architecture, film studies, or the embryonic disciplines of women's studies or cultural studies, ideas of postmodernism tended in these formative decades to be framed by reference to literary examples. McHale, B. (2007). What was postmodernism? Electronic Book Review. http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/fictionspresent/tense. Accessed 20 Jan 2014.

The other school of thought values the philosophical transcendentals as informed by classical theology. [2] It is led by individuals such as Anne M. Carpenter of St. Mary’s College, [3] California, and Richard Viladesau [4] of Fordham University, with contributions from Brian Nixon of Veritas International University. [5] This school of theo-poetics is influenced by the thought of Hans Urs von Balthasar as informed by a range of thinkers as divergent as Gregory of Nyssa, Thomas Aquinas, Maximus the Confessor, Dietrich Richard Alfred von Hildebrand, David Bentely Hart [6] and Pavel Florensky. [7] Description [ edit ]

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