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Lyotard, Literature and the Trauma of the differend by D. Sawyer

Lyotard, Literature and the Trauma of the differend

D. Sawyer

273 pages

Palgrave Macmillan

Jan 2014

1st ed. 2014 Edition

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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.

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