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This 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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Acknowledgments Introduction: The Academic Postmodern? 1: The Return of the Storyteller and the Circulation of "Literature" 2: Anecdotes and Conversations: The Method of Postmodernity 3: Speaking Personally: The Culture of Autobiography in the Postmodern 4: Feminisms and Feminizations in the Postmodern 5: Localism, Local Knowledge, and Literary Criticism 6: Romanticism and Localism 7: The Urge for Solutions and the Relief of Fiction Bibliography Index

Academic Postmodern the Rule of Literature A

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/1/1995 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226759494, 978-0226759494
      ISBN10: 0226759490
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This 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.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Introduction: The Academic Postmodern? 1: The Return of the Storyteller and the Circulation of "Literature" 2: Anecdotes and Conversations: The Method of Postmodernity 3: Speaking Personally: The Culture of Autobiography in the Postmodern 4: Feminisms and Feminizations in the Postmodern 5: Localism, Local Knowledge, and Literary Criticism 6: Romanticism and Localism 7: The Urge for Solutions and the Relief of Fiction Bibliography Index

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