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Mourning Becomes Ex-theory
- Journal of Modern Literature
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 41, Number 4, Summer 2018
- pp. 179-182
- 10.2979/jmodelite.41.4.12
- Review
- Additional Information
Abstract:
Dead Theory: Derrida, Death, and the Afterlife of Theory, a collection of essays edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo, provides a wide range of approaches interrogating the relationship between Theory and death. It considers the relationship through three groupings: the “death of Theory,” “death in Theory” and “theory of death.” Eleven essays explore this three-layered relationship through a variety of angles, all the while pointing to a future resurrection of Theory.