Narrative after Deconstruction

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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Beskrivning

Develops a rigorous theory of narrative as apost-deconstructive model for interpretation.Interrogating stories told about life after deconstruction, and discovering instead a kind of afterlife of deconstruction, Daniel Punday draws on a wide range of theorists to develop a rigorous theory of narrative as an alternative model for literary interpretation. Drawing on an observation made by Jean-François Lyotard, Punday argues that at the heart of narrative are concrete objects that can serve as "lynchpins" through which many different explanations and interpretations can come together. Narrative after Deconstruction traces the often grudging emergence of a post-deconstructive interest in narrative throughout contemporary literary theory by examining critics as diverse as Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Elizabeth Grosz, and Edward Said. Experimental novelists like Ronald Sukenick, Raymond Federman, Clarence Major, and Kathy Acker likewise work through many of the same problems of constructing texts in the wake of deconstruction, and so provide a glimpse of this post-deconstructive narrative approach to writing and interpretation at its most accomplished and powerful.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2002-10-24
Mått:229 x 151 x 15 mm
Vikt:336 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:204
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791455722

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Daniel Punday is Assistant Professor of English at Purdue University Calumet.

Recensioner i media

"…Punday provides a rich reading of deconstruction and narrative theory by looking at contemporary critics and experimental novelists." — CHOICE"…a well-researched study that seeks to coordinate frameworks for inquiry (e.g., cultural geography, feminist theories of materiality, and deconstructive literary theory) whose interconnections indeed deserve to be explored more fully." — Poetics Today"Narrative after Deconstruction offers a lucid, erudite, and persuasive argument for rethinking contemporary narration in light of, and in response to, the deconstructive questionings of the previous decades. This book is engaging, insightful, and accessible, in spite of the difficult theories that it unpacks." — Marcel Cornis-Pope, author of Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting in the Cold War Era and After"Punday provides new insights into the field of critical theory by formulating unique spatial/temporal distinctions for understanding narrative in the aftermath of deconstruction." — M. W. Smith, author of Reading Simulacra: Fatal Theories for Postmodernity

Innehållsförteckning

Preface 1. THE NARRATIVE TURN Deconstruction and NarrativeNarrative Totality and Narrative OpennessRecent Theories of Materiality 2. DECONSTRUCTION AND THE WORLDLY TEXT Localizing DeconstructionRethinking Deconstructive SpaceProducing Space in the Worldly TextThe Multiple Spaces of Post-Deconstructive NarrativeDerrida after Deconstruction 3. THE SEARCH FOR FORM IN AMERICAN POSTMODERN FICTION Problems in the Poetics of Postmodern FictionDefining Form in Postmodern FictionNegotiating Materiality in Postmodern Fiction 4. A GENERAL OR LIMITED NARRATIVE THEORY? Universal Narrative Forms? Revising Spatial FormThe Feel of Multiple Spaces 5. RESISTING POST-DECONSTRUCTIVE SPACE Space and Commodity CultureJameson's Resistance to Postmodern SpaceThe Open Landscape 6. READING TIME Temporality in the Worldly TextTheories of Reading ProcessA Poetics of the Hesitating TextOne and Several Sites 7. STRUGGLING WITH OBJECTS Respect for the ConcreteProblems of the Antihegemonic ConcreteDescribing Whole Objects 8. NARRATIVE AND POST-DECONSTRUCTIVE ETHICS Ethics after DeconstructionThe Ruins of the OtherConclusions Notes Works Cited Index