Postmodern Narrative Theory

ISBN-13: 9780230249356 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 216 str.

Mark Currie

Opis

How have developments in literary and cultural theory transformed our understanding of narrative? What has happened to narrative in the wake of poststructuralism? What is the role and function of narrative in the contemporary world? In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores these central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Postmodern Narrative Theory, Second Edition: - Establishes direct links between the workings of fictional narratives and those of the non-fictional world - Charts the transition in narrative theory from its formalist beginnings, through deconstruction, towards its current concerns with the social, cultural and cognitive uses of narrative - Explores the relationship between postmodern narrative and postmodern theory more closely - Presents detailed illustrative readings of known literary texts such as Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and now features a new chapter on Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and Slow Man. Approachable and stimulating, this is an essential introduction for anyone studying postmodernism, the theory of narrative or contemporary fiction.

Spis treści

General Editor's Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction PART ONE: LOST OBJECTS The Manufacture of Identities Terminologisation Theoretical Fiction PART TWO: NARRATIVE TIME AND SPACE Narrative, Politics and History Culture and Schizophrenia PART THREE: NARRATIVE SUBJECTS True Lies: Unreliable Identities in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde The Dark Clouds of Enlightenment: Socio-narratology and Heart of Darkness Postmodern Narrative Theory Reading Postmodern Narrative: Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and Slow Man Annotated Bibliography Bibliography Index.

O autorze

MARK CURRIE is Professor of Contemporary Literature at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. He is the author of Difference (Routledge, 2004) and About Time: Narrative Fiction and the Philosophy of Time (Edinburgh University Press, 2007). He has also published numerous articles on literary theory, narratology and contemporary fiction.