Postmodern Literary Theory

"Postmodern literary theory hasn't come from nowhere. Its beginnings lie in certain ideas associated with, among others, Barthes and Foucault in the 1970s, and in the disavowal of values and the questioning of literature associated with the eighteenth-century Romantics. Although postmodern literary theory does have some foundational texts and founding figures, these work to undo the very notion of 'foundations' - including that of literature itself. It is this work (rather than some archive) which Postmodern Literary Theory: An Anthology is designed to show. What is anthologized here, in short, are concepts, arguments, practices and debates." "Students will be guided to read each chapter as a particular response to a specific problem or concept relating to the overall theme. This theme is that postmodernism is concerned with only one thing - the question of literature."--Jacket.