Postmodern Literary Theory An Anthology

by Lucy, Niall

• ISBN13: 9780631210283
• ISBN10: 0631210288
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	x
Introduction (On the Way to Genre)	1	(40)
Part I: Genre	41	(80)
Genre	43	(15)
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
Jean-Luc Nancy
Something Like: `Communication ... Without Communication'	58	(11)
Jean-Francois Lyotard
From One Identity to an Other	69	(23)
Julia Kristeva
Rhizome	92	(29)
Gilles Deleuze
Felix Guattari
Part II: Ethics	121	(74)
Rewriting Wrong: On the Ethics of Literary Reversion	123	(17)
Steven Connor
The Ethics of Alterity	140	(9)
Thomas Docherty
The Three Genres	149	(12)
Luce Irigaray
Writing and the Law: Blanchot, Joyce, Kafka, and Lispector	161	(34)
Helene Cixous
Part III: Cyber	195	(88)
Watching the Detectives	197	(21)
Kristin Ross
Feminism for the Incurably Informed	218	(29)
Anne Balsamo
POST cyberMODERNpunkISM	247	(17)
Brian McHale
Miracles: Hot Air and Histories of the Improbable	264	(19)
Tony Thwaites
Part IV: Text	283	(62)
From Work to Text	285	(8)
Roland Barthes
Do Postmodern Genres Exist?	293	(17)
Ralph Cohen
The Literature of Exhaustion	310	(12)
John Barth
Writing Against Simulacrum: The Place of Literature and Literary Theory in the Electronic Age	322	(23)
Jenaro Talens
Part V: Post	345	(62)
Postmodern Value	347	(13)
Catherine Burgass
In Search of the Lyotard Archipelago, or: How to Live with Paradox and Learn to Like It	360	(20)
William Rasch
Preface to Anti-Oedipus	380	(4)
Michel Foucault
Analytic Ethics	384	(23)
Alec McHoul
Postscript	407	(34)
Note on the Meaning of `Post-'	409	(4)
Jean-Francois Lyotard
The Romantic Movement at the End of History	413	(28)
Jerome Christensen
Select Bibliography	441	(5)
Index	446