3 Ergebnisse.

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.

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.

The author argues that what was once the romantic space of the literary intelligentsia now has become a general plane of human existence. Niall Lucy's discussion embraces not only theorists but also writers whose collective responses to a fascinating range of problems and issues Lucy believes calls for pragmatic and ethical, poststructuralist solutions.