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.

Harry Potter and the Novice's Confession

Abstract: Lured by Pullman, Rowling, and Galloway, a literary theorist becomes a convert to children's literature—recognizing the possibilities of using this corpus to theorize everything from postmodernism to parody, from irony to adaptation. Children's books are often about adaptation—to the loss of a parent or home. The adaptation of children's fiction to other media flourishes today—in everything from films and television to computer games and theme parks. Like the adapted novels and stories, these adaptations too are "crossover" works—aimed at a double audience—the adult experiencing with the child or the adult the child becomes.

The Carnivalesque and Contemporary Narrative: Popular Culture and the Erotic

Abstract: The revalorizing of the work of Mikhail Bakhtin today does not appear to be based on his particular insights into particular author's works. Instead it is the general suggestiveness and even the incompleteness of Bakhtin's theories that have attracted critical attention. It has been suggested, for instance, that contemporary narrative illustrates even more clearly than does Dostoevsky's fiction the polyphony and dialogism that Bakhtin so prized. 1 Perhaps we can go one step further and argue that fictional narrative forms today are, in fact, a very extreme and self-conscious version of the novel as defined by Bakhtin. And this is true even within the limitations of Bakhtin' s very selective notion of the genre 2 as parodic, self-reflexive, and non-monologic.

From the New Criticism to Deconstruction: The Reception of Structuralism and Post-Structuralism@@@A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction

Abstract: Aims to say interesting things, both about the hybrid character of Anglo-American criticism and about the French theory that it imports and then proceeds to manhandle.

An epilogue: Postmodern parody: History, subjectivity, and ideology

Abstract: (1990). An epilogue: Postmodern parody: History, subjectivity, and ideology. Quarterly Review of Film and Video: Vol. 12, Parody, pp. 125-133.

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.