Abstract
This study extrapolates the aesthetics of postmodernism as a theoretical category. In this connection, the study briefly examines the problematics of definition associated with the concept essentially because of its ambivalent nature and paradoxical nexus with its root precursor, modernism. The study then distils some of the main features and purviews of postmodernism by major theorists like Jean-FracoisLyotard and Jean Baudrillard, as well as some key arguments in connection with the concept by scholars like Frederick Jameson, Terry Eagleton, Christopher Norris, Alan Sokal, and Jean Bricmont. The study posits that such contestations on the concept is show that it is a worthy site for intellectual engagements and a viable tool for textual interpretation and analysis.
Keywords: Postmodernism, modernism, text, ambivalence, analysis.
DOI: 10.36349/zamijoh.2023.v02i01.009
author/Sani, G. (Ph.D) & Tsenongu, M. (Ph.D)
journal/Zamfara IJOH Vol. 2, Issue 1
