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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137383348
• ISBN13: 9781137383341
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.6"