Postmodern Literary Theory: an Anthology
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
- Publish date: 02/01/2000
Description:
Literature today is a very different concept from that of only a generation ago, and this difference is usually attributed to "postmodernism, " a powerful signifier of the radically new and challenging. 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, and what are the key texts of its expression?
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This Anthology provides ways of responding to such questions while showing that postmodern literary theory cannot be understood in terms of an archive or a method. Its defining feature is an attitude of questioning which neither derives from a manifesto nor constitutes an actual movement.
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