The Next Generation


Volume 3, Number 1


Essays by emerging voices in comparative literature and theory that consider how the next generation of critics (who grew up in the ‘70s and went to graduate school in the ‘80s) receive paradigms that originated in the generational experiences of the 1960s. If interpretation both reflects and shapes its particular cultural moment, and if the next generation faces an entirely different social, political, and professional scene, should it not then follow that this generation’s theoretical orientation also be significantly different?

Contents

John H. Smith
Queering the Will

Albert Cook
New Thresholds, New Anatomies

Peter C. Herman
‘60s Theory and ‘90s Critics

Jeffrey Williams
The Posttheory Generation

David Galef
Answers to a Rhetorical Question

Susan Johnston
After the Deluge

Jeffrey R. Di Leo & Christian Moraru
Posttheory Postscriptum