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"""This is postmodern theory at its best-theory that resists totalizing language and closure-theory that always points back to the text, the creative well-spring of philosophy and practice. ""Murphy is vibrant, insistent, and responsible as a scholar, literary critic, philosopher, and pedagogical theorist. He is a sharp deconstructionist, but also a strong postmodern optimist. ""In this collection of essays, he acts as a web-weaver and a border crosser-moving back and forth between the camps of philosophy, literary criticism, feminist theory and pedagogical theory-linking strands of thought from such diverse realms as Lacanian psychoanalysis, Deep Ecology, postmodern theory, French Feminism, Bakhtinian dialogics and ecofeminism."" - Gretchen Legler, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis"

This is postmodern theory at its best-theory that resists totalizing language and closure-theory that always points back to the text, the creative well-spring of philosophy and practice. Murphy is vibrant, insistent, and responsible as a scholar, literary critic, philosopher, and pedagogical theorist. He is a sharp deconstructionist, but also a strong postmodern optimist. In this collection of essays, he acts as a web-weaver and a border crosser-moving back and forth between the camps of philosophy, literary criticism, feminist theory and pedagogical theory-linking strands of thought from such diverse realms as Lacanian psychoanalysis, Deep Ecology, postmodern theory, French Feminism, Bakhtinian dialogics and ecofeminism. - Gretchen Legler, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Patrick D. Murphy is Director of the Graduate Program in Literature and Criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Among his other books are Understanding Gary Synder; Critical Essays on Gary Synder; Critical Essays on American Modernism; and Essentials of the Theory of Fiction. He is also founding editor of the journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.

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