Narrative after deconstruction /
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| Author / Creator: | Punday, Daniel. |
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| Imprint: | Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (x, 194 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11129250 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 194 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-190) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1417520361 9781417520367 0791455718 9780791455715 0791455726 9780791455722 9780791487648 0791487644 |