 | A William V. Spanos Reader The American critic William V. Spanos, a pioneer of postmodern theory and co-founder of one of its principal organs, the journal boundary 2 , is, in the words of A William V. Spanos Reader coeditor Daniel T. O'Hara, everything that current post-modern theory is accused of not being: polemical, engaged, prophetic, passionate. Informed by his experience as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Spanos saw dire con-sequences for life in modernist aesthetic experiments, and he thereafter imbued his work with a constructive aspect ever in the name of more life. DANIEL T. O'HARA is a professor of English and Inaugural Mellon Term Professor of Hu-manities at Temple University. His books include The Art of Reading as a Way of Life: On Nietzsche's Truth (Northwestern, 2009). DONALD E. PEASE is the Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor of the Humanities at Dartmouth College. MICHELLE MARTIN holds a Ph.D. in English from Temple University. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Modern Literature , among other venues. |
