Postmodern Literary Theory"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." In 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