Lyotard, Literature and the Trauma of the differend

Sawyer, Dylan.

Lyotard, Literature and the Trauma of the differend [electronic resource] / by Dylan Sawyer. - 272 p. online resource.

This original study examines Jean-Fran�ois Lyotard's philosophical concept of the differend and details its unexplored implications for literature. it provides a new framework with which to understand the discourse itself, from its Homeric beginnings to postmodern works by authors such as Michael Ondaatje and Jonathan Safran Foer.

9781137383358

10.1057/9781137383358 doi


Literature.
Literature--Philosophy.
Literature--History and criticism.
Aesthetics.
Philosophy.
Poststructuralism.
Literature.
Literary History.
Aesthetics.
Poststructuralism.
Literary Theory.
History of Philosophy.

PN441-PN1009.5

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