It was through Hutcheon???s texts that I and many of my peers were first exposed to theorists such as Roland Barthes, Jean-Fran??ois Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, and Jacques Derrida, whose writings, different and sometimes incompatible as they are, nevertheless characterize the so-called linguistic turn in the humanities with which the postmodern, as aesthetic, is broadly aligned.