Preface Acknowledgements The Joy of Theory Part I Deja Vu 1 Deja Vu 2 Deconstruction and the 'Unfinished Project of Modernity' 3 Post-Gender: Jurassic Feminism Meets Queer Politics 4 The Pleasures of Labour: Marxist Aesthetics in a Post-Marxist World 5 Is the Novel Original? Derrida and (Post-)Modernity 6 Pierre Bourdieu and the Chronotopes of 'Post-Theory' Part II Inter 7 Inter Part III The Post-Theory Condition 8 English Studies in the Postmodern Condition: Towards a Place for the Signifier 9 Ethopoeia, Source-Study and Legal History: A Post-Theoretical Approach to the Question of 'Character' in Shakespearean Drama 10 The Death Drive Does Not Think 11 'Various Infinitudes': Narration, Embodiment and Ontology in Beckett's How It Is and Spinoza's Ethics 12 Edward Said after Theory: The Limits of Counterpoint 13 Grounding Theory: Literary Theory and the New Geography Post-Word Notes on Contributors Index
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