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The Fall of Literary Theory: A 21st Century Return to Deconstruction and Poststructuralism, with Applications

The Fall of Literary Theory: A 21st Century Return to Deconstruction and Poststructuralism, with Applications

Andreasen, Liana Vrajitoru

Paperback

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1627346899
ISBN13: 9781627346894
Publisher: Brown Walker Press
Published: Oct 22 2017
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The book revives literary theory, which was popular at the end of the 20th century, with the purpose of showing how useful it is in the current century in opening the minds of students to the dangers of claiming to have a fixed identity. The book shows that in Western cultures identity is a construct that always sees individuals as lacking something (being fallen) that can be retrieved or gained at the expense of an Other, an adversary seen as standing in the way of identity fulfillment. The book shows the history of fallenness through an analysis of Melville's Billy Budd, Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49. It also shows ways to heal identity through an analysis of Toni Morrison's Beloved and Rudolfo Anaya's Tortuga.

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