Linda Hutcheon

Bio: Linda Hutcheon is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Postmodernism & Opera. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 146 publications receiving 8146 citations. Previous affiliations of Linda Hutcheon include National Autonomous University of Mexico & McMaster University.

Ironie et Parodie : Stratégie et Structure

Abstract: L'ironie et la parodie en tant qu'actions qui suivent des "strategies" (K. Burke) destinees a permettre au lecteur d'interpreter et d'evaluer. La coincidence de l'interpretation du lecteur et de l'intentionnalite de l'auteur fondent l'identite structurelle du texte (comme parodie). Satire et parodie. La p. moderne peut etre consideree comme une forme litteraire autonome (v. les formalistes russes). Elle pourrait etre le signe qu'une forme ou qu'une convention est en train de devenir usee.

Interventionist Literary Histories: Nostalgic, Pragmatic, or Utopian?

Abstract: rels of ancients and moderns), literary history as we know it appears to have grown out of eighteenth-century antiquarian interests. In its earliest form it was often simply a compendium of information about writers (of practically anything), usually in straightforward chronological order. With Friedrich Schlegel, the story goes, came the shift from this sort of vast sequence of authors to a more limited corpus (and thus canon) of literary texts.1 The nineteenth century is generally viewed as the time of the greatest achievement in this vein, and many fundamental principles of Western literary history as a discipline were established then.* It is no coincidence that the same moment in history also witnessed the rise of a new form of national cultural self-awareness. A Western literature from the start (as in the various European quar-

Death drive: Eros and Thanatos in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde

Abstract: In their different ways, a series of Germanic artists and thinkers – the poet Novalis, the philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche, the father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud, and, most powerfully, composer Richard Wagner – all espoused at one point in their lives the view that death should not only be welcomed but ardently desired, even sought after as the final rest after a life of striving and suffering.

Rethinking literary history - comparatively

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In a Different Voice. Psychological Theory and Women’s Development. Cambridge, MA (Harvard University Press) 1982.

Abstract: Introduction 1. Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle 2. Images of Relationship 3. Concepts of Self and Morality 4. Crisis and Transition 5. Women's Rights and Women's Judgment 6. Visions of Maturity References Index of Study Participants General Index

The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality

Abstract: To raise the question of the nature of narrative is to invite reflection on the very nature of culture and, possibly, even on the nature of humanity itself. So natural is the impulse to narrate, so inevitable is the form of narrative for any report of the way things really happened, that narrativity could appear problematical only in a culture in which it was absent-absent or, as in some domains of contemporary Western intellectual and artistic culture, programmatically refused. As a panglobal fact of culture, narrative and narration are less problems than simply data. As the late (and already profoundly missed) Roland Barthes remarked, narrative "is simply there like life itself. . international, transhistorical, transcultural."' Far from being a problem, then, narrative might well be considered a solution to a problem of general human concern, namely, the problem of how to translate knowing into telling,2 the problem of fashioning human experience into a form assimilable to structures of meaning that are generally human rather than culture-specific. We may not be able fully to comprehend specific thought patterns of another culture, but we have relatively less difficulty understanding a story coming from another culture, however exotic that

The Post-Colonial Studies Reader

Abstract: The essential introduction to the most important texts in post-colonial theory and criticism, this second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include 121 extracts from key works in the field. Leading, as well as lesser known figures in the fields of writing, theory and criticism contribute to this inspiring body of work that includes sections on nationalism, hybridity, diaspora and globalization. The Reader's wide-ranging approach reflects the remarkable diversity of work in the discipline along with the vibrancy of anti-imperialist writing both within and without the metropolitan centres. Covering more debates, topics and critics than any comparable book in its field, The Post-Colonial Studies Reader is the ideal starting point for students and issues a potent challenge to the ways in which we think and write about literature and culture.