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Academic Postmodern And The Rule Of Literature: A Report On Half-Knowledge

Author: Simpson, David
Paperback; Large size
212 pages
Published: December 1995
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226759504

Simpson poses challenging questions about the recent celebration of localism, autobiography, anecdote, conversation, and storytelling. He also persuasively demonstrates why 'the whole matter of oppositionality' -- so widely claimed by postmodernists -- is 'in need of some serious investigation. -- Gerald Graff, University of ChicagoThis critique of the postmodern turn discusses the distinctive aspects of postmodern scholarship: the pervasiveness of the literary and the flight from grand theory to local knowledge. Defining features of postmodern thought are also discussed here such as storytelling and localism.

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