Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. The Joy of Theory ix
6. Part I. Déjà Vu
7. 1. Déjà Vu 3
8. 2. Deconstruction and the 'Unfinished Project of Modernity’ 21
9. 3. Post-Gender: Jurassic Feminism Meets Queer Politics 51
10. 4. The Pleasures of Labour: Marxist Aesthetics in a Post-Marxist World 63
11. 5. Is the Novel Original? Derrida and (Post-)Modernity 78
12. 6. Pierre Bourdieu and the Chronotopes of 'Post-Theory’ 89
13. Part II. Inter
14. 7. Inter 103
15. Part III. The Post-Theory Condition
16. 8. English Studies in the Postmodern Condition: Towards a Place for the Signifier 123
17. 9. Ethopoeia, Source-Study and Legal History: A Post-Theoretical Approach to the Question of ’Character’ in Shakespearean Drama 139
18. 10. The Death Drive Does Not Think 161
19. 11. ’Various Infinitudes’: Narration, Embodiment and Ontology in Beckett's How It Is and Spinoza's Ethics 176
20. 12. Edward Said after Theory: The Limits of Counterpoint 188
21. 13. Grounding Theory: Literary Theory and the New Geography 200
22. Post-Word 209
23. Notes on Contributors 214
24. Index 216