POSTMODERNISM, DECONSTRUCTION, SEXUALITY, METAMODERNISM, CONTEMPORARY LITERARY THEORY

Abstract

The arguable nature of the formation of a new aesthetic paradigm is obvious, though the apparent shift to what is called metamodernism, digimodernism, post-millenial shift is also present concerning theories on literary studies and art criticism. Certain historical events as well as major works on literary criticism and art allowed for the appearance of the term post-modernism, that came in place of modernism and replaced a former paradigm, with new definitions and dimensions given by M. Foucault and his ideas about episteme and sexuality, as well as such object of knowledge as madness, and works by J. Derrida and his views of deconstruction, difference and writing. The interdependence of all the theories is also evident and influential and concerns major research on the history of literature and art.