Technology and the trajectory of myth (Book review)

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Tranter, Kieran
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David Lodge’s ‘Campus Trilogy’ of novels 1 introduced the Californian literature theory Professor Morris Zapp. Loosely modelled off Stanley Fish, Zapp, particularly in the second book Small World set on the 1979 modern literature conference circuit, bombasts a cartoonish post-structural semiotics. The world is text; theorising is text, therefore any theory is wordplay. And – the ‘Zap!’ (hence his surname) any proposed theory of art, literature, politics, philosophy, is reducible and encapsulated by his meta-theory of a bottomless world of text on text on text … . 2

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Griffith Law Review

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28

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3

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Tranter, K, Technology and the trajectory of myth (Book review), Griffith Law Review, 2019, 28 (3), pp. 353-356

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