Postmodern Literary Theory: An Anthology

Acknowledgements.

Introduction: on the Way to Genre.

Part I: Genre:.

1. Genre: Phillipe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy.

2. Communication Without Communication': Jean-François Lyotard.

3. From One Identity to Another: Julia Kristeva.

4. Rhizome: Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.

Part II: Ethics:.

5. Rewriting Wrong: On the Ethics of Literary Reversion: Steven Connor.

6. The Ethics of Alterity: Thomas Docherty.

7. Three Genres: Luce Irigaray.

8. Writing and the Law: Blanchot, Joyce, Kafka and Lispector: Hélène Cixous.

Part III: Cyber: .

9. Watching the Detectives: Kristin Ross.

10. Feminism for the Incurably Informed: Anne Balsamo.

11. POSTcyberPUNKmodernISM: Brian McHale.

12. Miracles: Hot Air and Histories of the Improbable: Tony Thwaites.

Part IV: Text: .

13: From work to Text: Roland Barthes.

14. Do Postmodern Genres Exist?: Ralph Coren.

15. The Literature of Exhaustion: John Barth.

16. Writing Against Simulacrum: The Place of Literature and Literary Theory in the Postmodern Age: Jenaro Talens.

Part V: Post: .

17. Postmodern value: Catherine Burgass.

18. In Search of the Lyotard Archipelago, or: How to Live with Paradox and Learn to Like It: William Rasch.

19. Preface to Anti-Oedipus: Michel Foucault.

20. Analytic Ethics: Alec Mchoul.

Part VI: Postscript: .

21. Note on the Meaning of 'Post-': Jean-François Lyotard.

22. The Romantic Movement at the End of History: Jerome Christensen.

Select Bibliography.

Index.