Telling Stories : A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780415013871 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 208 str.

Steven Cohan;Cohan Steven

Opis

This volume overturns traditional definitions of narrative by arguing that any story, whether a Bette Davis film, a jeans ad, a Jane Austen novel of a Cathy comic, must be related to larger cultural networks. The authors show how meanings and subjectivity do not exist in isolation, but are manufactured by the narratives our culture reads and watches every day. They call for a critical practice that, through the fracturing of texts, can alter the grounds of knowledge and interpretation. This study should interest critics of narrative and culture, as well as students wanting to extend post-Saussurean theories to popular and canonical cultures, and to the dynamics of story-telling itself.

O autorze

Steven Cohan, Linda M. Shires