In this way I intend to discuss elements that belong in common to literary theory and media studies. It has always been granted that classic and modern traditions are opposite to each other, at least in formal terms. Classic tradition is stable and depends on the text.
Modern tradition is sustained by the concept of rupture.
It is, as Octavio Paz has said, a tradition of rupture. Postmodern life is a way to look at texts Postmodern culture is a paradoxical juxtaposition of elements that originally belonged to both traditions, and that has only become possible with the coming into play of the political dimension of the interpreter of cultural texts, be it a reader, a spectator, a visitor, a listener or simply a consumer. Sorne of the contemporary theories about postmodern aesthetics focus on one of its formal dimensions, or just take the consequence as the cause, considering that there just are postmodern objects, whereas I sustain that postmodern culture resides in the glance. Or more exactly, that the superposition of classic and anti-classic elements is the result of the intertextual associations that the reader is able to project on the texts. This need is part of the modern heritage, that is, our need to believe in texts or in authors, not in our own proceas of interpretation.