{"title":"Niall Lucy","description":"\u003cp\u003eNiall Lucy's works delve into the complexities of postmodern thought, offering insightful explorations into culture, language, and theory. His writings challenge conventional perspectives, providing readers with nuanced analyses that illuminate contemporary debates in arts and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIdeal for those interested in education and critical theory, Lucy's books blend rigorous scholarship with accessible language, making difficult concepts engaging and approachable. His keen understanding of postmodernism enriches discussions across literature, philosophy, and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"beautiful-waste-by-chris-coughran-9781921361708","title":"Beautiful Waste","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrilliant songwriter and lead singer of the Triffids, David McComb died in 1999, leaving behind a legacy of evocative music. Always more than a pop musician, McComb was a perceptive poet who explored and confronted addiction, pop culture, the colloquial, and the metaphysical.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCollected and published for the first time, this is the poetry McComb wrote during his 20s and 30s when the Triffids' musical output was at its height. The poems in this book will delight fans of popular music and contemporary poetry alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeautiful Waste\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates a hitherto neglected aspect of McComb's creative brilliance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47340643320044,"sku":"9781921361708","price":37.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/2028203482872.jpg?v=1772162945"},{"product_id":"postmodern-literary-theory-by-niall-lucy-9780631200017","title":"Postmodern Literary Theory","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"You couldn't use terms like 'text' in an English course without incurring the disapproval of some crusty old moralist...\" \"In a postmodern world, literature is just another text...\" \"Forget depth: think surface! ...everything is a text.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this brilliantly provocative and comprehensively informative introductory text, Niall Lucy shows the student how postmodern literary theory derives from a late eighteenth-century romantic tradition. In that tradition, the literary was conceived as inseparable from the literary theoretical. But for postmodernism, Lucy argues, what was once the romantic space of the literary becomes a general plane of human existence. There, concepts of identity, origin, and truth are seen as multiple and structureless assemblages rather than as grounds for understanding human \"being\" and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLucy uses the work of Hobbes, Johnson, Rousseau, Kant, Nietzsche, Freud, and Heidegger to historicize his analysis. Levi-Strauss, Barthes, Baudrillard, Derrida, Kristeva, Lyotard, Deleuze and Guattari, and Hassan are among the more recent theorists with whom he engages. His discussion embraces not only \"theorists\" but also \"writers\", including Acker, Auster, Barth, and Pynchon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLucy’s concluding response to the fascinating range of problems and issues he reveals is to propose a pragmatic and ethical, poststructuralist solution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003ePostmodern Literary Theory\u003c\/em\u003e, Niall Lucy provides an insightful guide to understanding the complexities of postmodern thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471392686316,"sku":"9780631200017","price":109.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780631200017-postmodern-literary-theory.jpg?v=1775241483"},{"product_id":"a-dictionary-of-postmodernism-by-niall-lucy-9781405150781","title":"A Dictionary of Postmodernism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Dictionary of Postmodernism\u003c\/i\u003e presents an authoritative A-Z of the critical terms and central figures related to the origins and evolution of postmodernist theory and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExplores the names and ideas that have come to define the postmodern condition – from Baudrillard, Jameson, and Lyotard, to the concepts of deconstruction, meta-narrative, and simulation – alongside less canonical topics such as dialogue and punk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIncludes essays by the late Niall Lucy, a leading expert in postmodernism studies, and by other noted scholars who came together to complete and expand upon his last work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSpans a kaleidoscope of postmodernism perspectives, addressing its lovers and haters; its movers and shakers such as Derrida; its origins in modernism and semiotics, and its outlook for the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFeatures a series of brief essays rather than fixed definitions of the key ideas and arguments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEngaging and thought-provoking, this is at once a scholarly guide and enduring reference for the field.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47595430740204,"sku":"9781405150781","price":68.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781405150781-a-dictionary-of-postmodernism.jpg?v=1777897952"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/niall-lucy.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}