Postmodern Literary Theory An Anthology

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.

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).

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

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