Post-Theory : New Directions in Criticism

Contents: I. Dejd Vu: 1. Dejd Vu/Nicholas Royle.2.Deconstruction and the'Unfinished Project of Modernity'/Christopher Norris. 3. Post-Gender: Jurassic Feminism Meets Queer Politics/Patricia Duncker. 4. The Pleasures of Labour: Marxist Aesthetics in a Post-Marxist World/Antony Easthope.5. Is the Novel Original? Derrida and (Post-)Modernity/Eric Woehrling. 6. Pierre Bourdieu and the Chronotopes of 'Post-Theory'/Jeremy Lane. II. Inter: 7. Inter/Geoffrey Bennington. III. The Post-Theory Condition:  8. English Studies in the Postmodern Condition: Towards a Place for the Signifier / Catherine Betsey.  9. Ethopoeia, Source-Study and Legal History: A Post-Theoretical Approach to the Question of 'Character' in Shakespearean Drama/Loma Hutson. 10. The Death Drive Does Not Think/Robert Smith. 11. 'Various Infinitudes': Narration, Embodiment and Ontology in Beckett's How It Is and Spinoza's Ethics/Alex Houen. 12. Edward Said after Theory: The Limits of Counterpoint/Charles Forsdick. 13. Grounding Theory: Literary Theory and the New Geography/Julian Murphet.

Post-Theory brings together some of the most prominent figures and rising stars in the field of Critical Theory. Essays consider such issues as: the current state of Critical Theory; the type of work Theory has made possible; and the future of theory. Opening with a Preface by Ernesto Laclau, the book closes with a ‘Post-Word’ from Helene Cixous. This volume of new work features examples of new theoretical possibilities.  (jacket)