Maybe a rogue isn't such a bad thing, after all, considering that a large
proportion of novelistic literature is written from the perspective of the
rogue. Of course, if (with Lukacs) we take the novel as the exemplary
literary form for the expression of bourgeois consciousness -- in other
words, of modernism -- we might even say that modernity itself has a certain
*rogueish* point of view.
The small dictionary on my computer has, as one possible etymology for the
term, the 16th century *cant roger* "a vagabond pretending to be a poor
scholar." But these days there are so many poor scholars pretending to be
poor scholars that perhaps we've no more use for the genuine vagabonds.
Perhaps this is what is really meant by post-modernism?
Regards,
Tom Walker
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