Postmodern Literary Theory
An Anthology
1. Edition December 1999
472 Pages, 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.
Introduction: on the Way to Genre.
Part I: Genre.
Part II: Ethics.
Part III: Cyber.
Part IV: Text.
Part V: Post.
Part VI: Postscript.
Select Bibliography.
Index.
Introduction: on the Way to Genre.
Part I: Genre.
Part II: Ethics.
Part III: Cyber.
Part IV: Text.
Part V: Post.
Part VI: Postscript.
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).
