Postmodern Literary Theory
An Anthology
1. Auflage Dezember 1999
472 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-21028-3
John Wiley & Sons
Literature today is a very different concept from that of only a generation ago, and this difference is attributed usually to 'postmodernism'. Most radical of all is the possibility that the very notion of literature is rendered untenable by postmodernism. How did this possibility arise? Who are the key figures responsible for its emergence; which are the key texts of its expression? This Anthology provides ways of responding to such questions.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction: on the Way to Genre.
Part I: Genre:.
1. Genre: Phillipe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy.
2. Communication Without Communication': Jean-François
Lyotard.
3. From One Identity to Another: Julia Kristeva.
4. Rhizome: Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.
Part II: Ethics:.
5. Rewriting Wrong: On the Ethics of Literary Reversion: Steven
Connor.
6. The Ethics of Alterity: Thomas Docherty.
7. Three Genres: Luce Irigaray.
8. Writing and the Law: Blanchot, Joyce, Kafka and Lispector:
Hélène Cixous.
Part III: Cyber: .
9. Watching the Detectives: Kristin Ross.
10. Feminism for the Incurably Informed: Anne Balsamo.
11. POSTcyberPUNKmodernISM: Brian McHale.
12. Miracles: Hot Air and Histories of the Improbable: Tony
Thwaites.
Part IV: Text: .
13: From work to Text: Roland Barthes.
14. Do Postmodern Genres Exist?: Ralph Coren.
15. The Literature of Exhaustion: John Barth.
16. Writing Against Simulacrum: The Place of Literature and
Literary Theory in the Postmodern Age: Jenaro Talens.
Part V: Post: .
17. Postmodern value: Catherine Burgass.
18. In Search of the Lyotard Archipelago, or: How to Live with
Paradox and Learn to Like It: William Rasch.
19. Preface to Anti-Oedipus: Michel Foucault.
20. Analytic Ethics: Alec Mchoul.
Part VI: Postscript: .
21. Note on the Meaning of 'Post-': Jean-François
Lyotard.
22. The Romantic Movement at the End of History: Jerome
Christensen.
Select Bibliography.
Index.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction: on the Way to Genre.
Part I: Genre:.
1. Genre: Phillipe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy.
2. Communication Without Communication': Jean-François
Lyotard.
3. From One Identity to Another: Julia Kristeva.
4. Rhizome: Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.
Part II: Ethics:.
5. Rewriting Wrong: On the Ethics of Literary Reversion: Steven
Connor.
6. The Ethics of Alterity: Thomas Docherty.
7. Three Genres: Luce Irigaray.
8. Writing and the Law: Blanchot, Joyce, Kafka and Lispector:
Hélène Cixous.
Part III: Cyber: .
9. Watching the Detectives: Kristin Ross.
10. Feminism for the Incurably Informed: Anne Balsamo.
11. POSTcyberPUNKmodernISM: Brian McHale.
12. Miracles: Hot Air and Histories of the Improbable: Tony
Thwaites.
Part IV: Text: .
13: From work to Text: Roland Barthes.
14. Do Postmodern Genres Exist?: Ralph Coren.
15. The Literature of Exhaustion: John Barth.
16. Writing Against Simulacrum: The Place of Literature and
Literary Theory in the Postmodern Age: Jenaro Talens.
Part V: Post: .
17. Postmodern value: Catherine Burgass.
18. In Search of the Lyotard Archipelago, or: How to Live with
Paradox and Learn to Like It: William Rasch.
19. Preface to Anti-Oedipus: Michel Foucault.
20. Analytic Ethics: Alec Mchoul.
Part VI: Postscript: .
21. Note on the Meaning of 'Post-': Jean-François
Lyotard.
22. The Romantic Movement at the End of History: Jerome
Christensen.
Select Bibliography.
Index.
'This is a timely and well-constructed anthology which carves out a
distinctive niche among the many recent books on
postmodermism....It finds room for a wide variety of arguments,
approaches and critical viewpoints and thereby encourages readers
to form their own judgement as to the implications of postmodernist
thinking for literary criticism and theory.'
Chris Norris, University of Wales,
Cardiff
distinctive niche among the many recent books on
postmodermism....It finds room for a wide variety of arguments,
approaches and critical viewpoints and thereby encourages readers
to form their own judgement as to the implications of postmodernist
thinking for literary criticism and theory.'
Chris Norris, University of Wales,
Cardiff
Niall Lucy is Head of the School of Arts at Murdoch University. He is the author of Postmodern Literary Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell Publishers 1997) and Debating Derrida (1995).
