An accessible survey of the complex theories that have transformed the study of narrative in recent decades. This revised, updated and expanded edition of an established text now explores the relationship between postmodern narrative and postmodern...
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An accessible survey of the complex theories that have transformed the study of narrative in recent decades. This revised, updated and expanded edition of an established text now explores the relationship between postmodern narrative and postmodern theory more closely, and concludes with a new chapter on J.M. Coetzee's fiction
Cover -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1: What is a postmodern narrative? -- Part 2: Narratology, death and afterlife -- Diversification, deconstruction, politicisation -- Models for narratological change -- Poststructuralist or postclassical narratology -- Part I: Lost Objects -- 1 The Manufacture of Identities -- Voice, distance and judgement -- Formalism and ideology -- From point of view to positionality -- 2 Terminologisation -- 3 Theoretical Fiction -- Criticism as fiction -- Fiction as criticism -- Part II: Narrative Time and Space -- 4 Narrative, Politics and History -- Narrative and time -- Narrative and exclusion -- Textuality and history -- Nations and narrations -- 5 Culture and Schizophrenia -- Accelerated recontextualisation -- Time-space compression -- Narratives grand and little -- Part III: Narrative Subjects -- 6 True Lies: Unreliable Identities in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde -- Inner distance -- Narrative shipwreck -- Writing and seeing -- Self-conscious self-consciousness -- 7 The Dark Clouds of Enlightenment: Socio-Narratology and Heart of Darkness -- 8 Postmodern Narrative Theory Reading Postmodern Narrative: Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and Slow Man -- The opinions of Elizabeth Costello -- Metalepsis in Slow Man -- The predicament of the postmodern reader -- Annotated Bibliography -- Bibliography -- Index
An accessible survey of the complex theories that have transformed the study of narrative in recent decades. This revised, updated and expanded edition of an established text now explores the relationship between postmodern narrative and postmodern...
more
An accessible survey of the complex theories that have transformed the study of narrative in recent decades. This revised, updated and expanded edition of an established text now explores the relationship between postmodern narrative and postmodern theory more closely, and concludes with a new chapter on J.M. Coetzee's fiction. Cover -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1: What is a postmodern narrative? -- Part 2: Narratology, death and afterlife -- Diversification, deconstruction, politicisation -- Models for narratological change -- Poststructuralist or postclassical narratology -- Part I: Lost Objects -- 1 The Manufacture of Identities -- Voice, distance and judgement -- Formalism and ideology -- From point of view to positionality -- 2 Terminologisation -- 3 Theoretical Fiction -- Criticism as fiction -- Fiction as criticism -- Part II: Narrative Time and Space -- 4 Narrative, Politics and History -- Narrative and time -- Narrative and exclusion -- Textuality and history -- Nations and narrations -- 5 Culture and Schizophrenia -- Accelerated recontextualisation -- Time-space compression -- Narratives grand and little -- Part III: Narrative Subjects -- 6 True Lies: Unreliable Identities in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde -- Inner distance -- Narrative shipwreck -- Writing and seeing -- Self-conscious self-consciousness -- 7 The Dark Clouds of Enlightenment: Socio-Narratology and Heart of Darkness -- 8 Postmodern Narrative Theory Reading Postmodern Narrative: Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and Slow Man -- The opinions of Elizabeth Costello -- Metalepsis in Slow Man -- The predicament of the postmodern reader -- Annotated Bibliography -- Bibliography -- Index.
