Download or read book The Academic Postmodern and the Rule of Literature written by David Simpson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critique of the postmodern turn discusses the distinctive aspects of postmodern scholarship: the pervasiveness of the literary and the flight from grand theory to local knowledge. Defining features of postmodern thought are also discussed here such as storytelling and localism.