Lyotard, Literature and the Trauma of the Differend

By Dylan Sawyer

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349480509
• ISBN13: 9781349480500
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"