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 | | Postmodern Literary Theory: An Anthology by Niall Lucy (Editor) ISBN-10: 9780631210276 ISBN-10: 0-631-21027-X ISBN-13: 9780631210276 ISBN-13: 978-0-631-21027-6 Hardcover 2000-02-15 Wiley-Blackwell Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description 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. | ||
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Anthology of Creators and Explorers of Postmodernism I remember (painfully) writing my fourth year thesis on postmodern literary theory well before this valuable text was published. If it had, the task would have been a "little" help, but enough to push the paper through well before the deadline. My thesis supervisor, associate professor of the humanities department at the university, out of the blue, while I was doing a post grad diploma in education at another university, invited me to the launch of this text. The editor, Niall Lucy, would be speaking and it was a good opportunity to rub shoulders with the university's power brokers and some notable publishers. A family tragedy ocurred the day before thus attending was impossible... too bad. In this anthology, Lucy has included all the big guns: Lyotard, Kristiva, Delueuze and Guattari, Iragray, Foucault, Barths and John Barth and Christensen includind his exceptional essay `The Romantic Movement and the End of History', which by the way set my academic writings in this particular direction for more post grad work in this area. (Started but never finished) This is not the space to define `postmodernisn', but those embarking on literature degrees, philosophy, and even history, these ideas seem revolutionary, particulaly the work of Luce Irigaray and her work in Ethics and Feminism. At least the vast amount of work and writing during the last thirty years on this subject from an array of great thinkers' has changed how we view the world - for better or worse. If you are investigating 'postmoderism', this anthology would not be a bad place to begin. A good critic of postmodernism is Terry Eagleton, a very good writer from a Marxist view, and that is his book, The Illusions of Postmodernism. An interesting subject and necessary for those embarking on a serious study of literature, philosophy or the Humanities in general. | ||