Punday Narrative after Deconstruction

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8764-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 204 Seiten

Develops a rigorous theory of narrative as apost-deconstructive model for interpretation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Punday, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Dekonstruktivismus, Strukturalismus, Poststrukturalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. THE NARRATIVE TURN
Deconstruction and Narrative
Narrative Totality and Narrative Openness
Recent Theories of Materiality
2. DECONSTRUCTION AND THE WORLDLY TEXT
Localizing Deconstruction
Rethinking Deconstructive Space
Producing Space in the Worldly Text
The Multiple Spaces of Post-Deconstructive Narrative
Derrida after Deconstruction
3. THE SEARCH FOR FORM IN AMERICAN POSTMODERN FICTION
Problems in the Poetics of Postmodern Fiction
Defining Form in Postmodern Fiction
Negotiating Materiality in Postmodern Fiction
4. A GENERAL OR LIMITED NARRATIVE THEORY?
Universal Narrative Forms?
Revising Spatial Form
The Feel of Multiple Spaces 5. RESISTING POST-DECONSTRUCTIVE SPACE
Space and Commodity Culture
Jameson's Resistance to Postmodern Space
The Open Landscape
6. READING TIME
Temporality in the Worldly Text
Theories of Reading Process
A Poetics of the Hesitating Text
One and Several Sites
7. STRUGGLING WITH OBJECTS
Respect for the Concrete
Problems of the Antihegemonic Concrete
Describing Whole Objects
8. NARRATIVE AND POST-DECONSTRUCTIVE ETHICS
Ethics after Deconstruction
The Ruins of the Other
Conclusions
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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