Linda Hutcheon

Linda Ann Hutcheon (born August 24, 1947 in Toronto ) is a Canadian literary theorist . She is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto . Her influential theories of postmodernism , which she sees much more positively than Fredric Jameson, are particularly well known .

Hutcheon studied at the University of Toronto and Cornell University .

In 1990 she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada . In 2003 she was elected an external member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and in 2010 of the Finnish Academy of Sciences .

She is the Officer of the Order of Canada . In 2000, she became the first Canadian woman to be elected Chair of the Modern Language Association of America .

Publications (selection)

A Theory of Adaptation . New York 2006
Opera: The Art of Dying . Harvard University Press, 2004 (with Michael Hutcheon)
Rethinking Literary History: A Forum on Theory . Oxford University Press, New York 2002 (with Mario J. Valdés)
Bodily Charm: Living Opera . Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2000 (with Michael Hutcheon).
Opera: Desire, Disease, and Death. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1996 (with Michael Hutcheon).
Irony's Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony . Routledge, New York 1994
The Politics of Postmodernism . Routledge, New York 1989
A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction . Routledge, New York 1988
A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms . 1984; 2nd ed. University of Illinois Press, Champaign 2001

Homepage of Linda Hutcheon at the University of Toronto
Linda Hutcheon ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia .
Hutcheon , entry in English-Canadian writers, Athabasca University , 2015, with 7 further links to texts by or about her (e.g. bibliography, own presentation of the family background, etc.)

↑ Foreign Members. (No longer available online.) Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, archived from the original on October 9, 2014 ; accessed on May 5, 2016 .