More than a year later, I have recently been contacted by an “Online Marketing Manager” with Harper-Collins, who offered to send me a galley of a new book written by Levitt and Steven J. Dubner, author of the original article.
The book has a terrible title, but it’s pretty good. I’ll write a more detailed review soon.
]]>Postmodern literary theory is now transforming itself so rapidly that Marxist, feminist, deconstructionist, and psychoanalytic critics (and others) are flocking back to the drawing board in droves as they search for new approaches to writing and teaching.
]]>Indeed, some academics say that postmodern theory is on the way out altogether and that the heady ideas that once changed the way literature is taught and read will soon be as extinct as the dodo and the buggy whip.
In the book every self-respecting nerd must eventually read, Hofstadter asks, If an autological word is one that refers to itself, and a heterological one does not, is “heterological” autological or heterological?
Incidentally, I can now claim to have been the first person known to Google to publically state that the word “Twee” is autological.
Update: That other page in the search results that lists autological words gives credit. :)
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