Postmodern literary theory : an anthology
"Postmodern literary theory hasn't come from nowhere. Its beginnings lie in certain ideas associated with, among others, Barthes and Foucault in the 1970s, and in the disavowal of values and the questioning of literature associated with the eighteenth-century Romantics. Although postmodern literary theory does have some foundational texts and founding figures, these work to undo the very notion of 'foundations' - including that of literature itself. It is this work (rather than some archive) which Postmodern Literary Theory: An Anthology is designed to show. What is anthologized here, in short, are concepts, arguments, practices and debates." "Students will be guided to read each chapter as a particular response to a specific problem or concept relating to the overall theme. This theme is that postmodernism is concerned with only one thing - the question of literature."--BOOK JACKET
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 454 pages
9780631210276, 9780631210283, 063121027X, 0631210288
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Introduction (On the Way to Genre)
pt. I. Genre. 1. Genre / Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy. 2. Something Like: 'Communication ... Without Communication' / Jean-Francois Lyotard. 3. From One Identity to an Other / Julia Kristeva. 4. Rhizome / Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
pt. II. Ethics. 5. Rewriting Wrong: On the Ethics of Literary Reversion / Steven Connor. 6. The Ethics of Alterity / Thomas Docherty. 7. The Three Genres / Luce Irigaray. 8. Writing and the Law: Blanchot, Joyce, Kafka, and Lispector / Helene Cixous
pt. III. Cyber. 9. Watching the Detectives / Kristin Ross. 10. Feminism for the Incurably Informed / Anne Balsamo. 11. POSTcyberMODERNpunkISM / Brian McHale. 12. Miracles: Hot Air and Histories of the Improbable / Tony Thwaites
pt. IV. Text. 13. From Work to Text / Roland Barthes. 14. Do Postmodern Genres Exist? / Ralph Cohen. 15. The Literature of Exhaustion / John Barth. 16. Writing Against Simulacrum: The Place of Literature and Literary Theory in the Electronic Age / Jenaro Talens
pt. 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. 21. Note on the Meaning of 'Post-' / Jean-Francois Lyotard. 22. The Romantic Movement at the End of History / Jerome Christensen