Postmodern literary theory hasn't come from nowhere, however, its begnings lie in certain ideas associated with, among others, Barthes and Foucault in the 1970's and in the disavowel of values and the questioning of literature associated with the eighteenth-Century Romantics. Although postmodern literary theory does have some literary theory does have some foundational texts and founding figures these work to undothe very notion of 'foundations' - including that of Literature itself. It is this work (rather then some archives) which Post Modern Literery Theory: An Anthropology in designed to show. What is anthologized here, in short, are concepts, arguments, practices and debates.
