Lyotard, Literature And The Trauma Of The Differend

This original study examines Jean-François 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.

• • Author: D. Sawyer
• • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• • Publication Date: May 23, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 268 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1137383348
• • ISBN-13: 9781137383341