Post-Theory

Martin McQuillan is director of the Institute for Creative Enterprise at Edge Hill University. He is a writer, filmmaker and literary theorist. His academic work includes the monographs Critical Practice: Philosophy and Creativity (2019), Deconstruction without Derrida (2014) and Deconstruction after 9/11 (2008). His prize-winning film work includes Hamlet Within (2023) and Oxi: An act of resistance with Ken McMullen (2015) and Love in the Post with Joanna Callaghan (2014). Senior Lecturer in English Literature & Creative Writing at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Central Lancashire Graeme MacDonald is a Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He is a co-editor of Post-Theory: New Directions in Criticism (Edinburgh University Press, 1999).

• Part 1 Deja vu: deja vu, Nicholas Royle; deconstruction and the "unfinished project of modernity", Christopher Norris; post-gender - Jurassic feminism meets queer politics, Patricia Duncker; the pleasures of labour - Marxist aesthetics in a post-Marxist world, Anthony Easthope; is the novel original? Derrida and modernity, Eric Woehrling; Pierre Bourdieu and the chronotopes of "post-theory", Jeremy Lane. Part 2 Inter: inter, Geoffrey Bennington. Part 3 The post-theory condition: English studies in the postmodern condition - towards a place for the signifier, Catherine Belsey; Ethopoeia, source study and legal history - a post-theoretical approach to the question of "character" in Shakespearean drama, Lorna Hutson; The death drive does not think, Robert Smith; "various infinitudes" - narration, embodiment and ontology in Beckett's "How it is" and Spinoza's "Ethics", Alex Houen; said after theory - the limits of counterpoint, Charles Forsdick; grounding theory - literary theory and the new geography, Julia Murphet. Post-word, Helene Cixous.

A really extraordinary collection of important voices.