author: linda hutcheon

A Postmodern Reader

These readings are organized into four sections. The first explores the wellsprings of the debates in the relationship between the postmodern and the enterprise it both continues and contravenes: modernism.

A Theory of Adaptation

... The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is accompanied by elaborate teaching aids, from lesson plans to Web-based packages to material for after-school clubs. Today, hardly a book or a movie aimed at school-aged children does not have its ...

A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction

The poetics of postmodernism offered here is drawn from these contradictions, as seen in the intersecting concerns of both contemporary theory and cultural practice.

Leonard Cohen and His Works

... grave ( LUCM , p . 47 ) . The epigraph to Cohen's first collection signalled his awareness of and interest in the mechanism of intertextuality . It is from William Faulkner's The Bear and contains within itself an ironic citation of and ...

Irony's Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony

... Literary Form, Berkeley: University of California Press. ——(1978) Shandyism ... (1984) Afro-American Literature in the Twentieth Century, New Haven: Yale ... Terms [1976], Harmondsworth: Penguin. Culler, J. (1974) Flaubert: The Uses of ...

Narcissistic Narrative: The Metafictional Paradox

... game of anagrams which proceeds from insect to scient to nicest to incest ( p . 91 ) . Similarly games of " Flavita " ( from the Russian game , alfavit , or Scrabble ) turn into preludes to sexual dallying between the siblings ( pp ...

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