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Madsen, Deborah Lea was born on December 13, 1960 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Arrived in England, 1985. Daughter of Michael and Vivienne Margaret (Hood) Jones.
( Rereading Allegory takes the form of an exploration of ...)
Rereading Allegory takes the form of an exploration of a new consensus in genre theory. Following the comments of theorists such as Jacques Derrida and Fredric Jameson, genre is questionable as an 'essential' textual quality. Generic identity is taken to assume necessary generic differences; discursive plurality is posited as the context for generic singularity. The term 'genre'is used to name the highlighting of one set of textual features at the expense of all others. Genre thereby raises the crucial issue of why one aspect of the text is so privileged and puts into question the cultural interest that are served by partial definitions of textual value. These issues are inescapable in the wake of poststructuralist emphases on textual pluralism. The 'multigeneric' text makes problematic our inherited assumptions concerning the integrity of generic definitions. The first major study to use the advances made by poststructuralist thought in the area of genre theory, Rereading Allegory focuses on the problematic relationship that characterizes literary texts and their generic descriptions and shows that the dynamics of this relationship emerge from conflicting demands for theoretical identity and textual difference, literary essence and discursive plurality.
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(This is the first bibliography of Postmodernism to take a...)
This is the first bibliography of Postmodernism to take account of work published in all subject areas and in all languages. Deborah Madsen has identified a new first occurrence of the term in 1926, preceding by more than twenty years the first occurence documented by the Oxford English Dictionary. In a chronological listing, books, articles, notes, letters and working papers on Postmodernism are described with full bibliographical details. Reviews of major books are documented and full contents listings are given for special issues of journals devoted to Postmodernism. An appendix includes books on Postmodernism announced for publication in 1995. This bibliography brings together in one place all secondary material published on Postmodernism. All disciplines are included, from anthropology to zoology: architecture, cultural studies, dance, drama, feminism, fiction, geography, history, legal studies, literary theory, mathematics, medicine, music, pedagogical theory, philosophy, photography and film, poetry, politics, religion, sociology, the visual and plastic arts, and others. The bibliography also documents items in a range of languages other than English: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Slovanian, Spanish, and the Scandinavian languages. Access to the information contained in the bibliography is made easy with a comprehensive index providing guidance according to author, subject, language, and key words. Postmodernism: A Bibliography, 1926-1994 is an essential reference text for anyone working in the area of contemporary culture studies.
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Allegory in America surveys the history of American allegorical writing from the Puritans through the period of American romanticism to postmodernism. In a series of theoretical chapters the cultural function of allegory is discussed in relation to the mythology of American exceptionalism. Each theoretical chapter is followed by a chapter that analyzes a specific text or group of texts. Allegorical indeterminacy is seen to produce a literary tradition that both represents and subverts the ideals of American orthodoxy.
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Madsen, Deborah Lea was born on December 13, 1960 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Arrived in England, 1985. Daughter of Michael and Vivienne Margaret (Hood) Jones.
Bachelor with honors, University Adelaide, 1982. Master of Arts, University Adelaide, 1985. Doctor of Philosophy, University Sussex, 1989.
Lecturer, U. Leicester, England, 1989-1995; reader, U. Leicester, England, 1995-1997; professor, South Bank U., London, since 1997. Assessor Higher Education Funding Council, England, since 1996.
( Exceptionalism, the notion that Americans have a distin...)
(Allegory in America surveys the history of American alleg...)
(This is the first bibliography of Postmodernism to take a...)
(This is the first bibliography of Postmodernism to take a...)
( Rereading Allegory takes the form of an exploration of ...)
Member Modern Language Association, British Association for American Studies, European Association for American Studies.
Married Mark Sandberg, February 23, 1989. Children: Selene Deborah, Dana Marcia.