[New-Poetry] modernism/postmodernism

[Robin Hamilton]

> and having just discovered de Saussure],

Strictly, I suppose, that isn't entirely true.  I'd been reading the usual 
de Saussure lite at high school (wasn't everyone?), mostly Claude 
Levi-Stauss (my big hero then) and Piaget.

Just that I hadn't thought to look back to Big Daddy.

But Glasgow in the sixties tended to do about everything ass-backwards (as, 
not that we didn't know about Chomsky, but he was _American Power and the 
New Mandarins_ rather than _Aspects of a Theory of Syntax_.)

Took a time to realise there was a world elsewhere.

As to postmodernism ... well, anyone brought up on the Lobey Dosser cartoon 
strip had already been there, done that, and bought the post-modernist 
T-shirt.

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