The Academic Postmodern and the Rule of Literature: A Report on Half-Knowledge

by David Simpson

Book Overview

This brilliantly argued book is an entirely fresh critique of the postmodern turn. David Simpson sets his sights on the most distinctive aspects of postmodern scholarship: the pervasiveness of the literary and the flight from grand theory to local knowledge.

Simpson examines defining features of postmodern thought--storytelling, autobiography, anecdote, and localism--and traces their unacknowledged roots in literature and literary criticism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226759504
• ISBN13: 9780226759500
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"