Narrative after deconstruction / Daniel Punday.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Punday, Daniel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narration (Rhetoric).

Deconstruction.

Postmodernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

The Narrative Turn

Deconstruction and the Worldly Text

The Search for Form in American Postmodern Fiction

A General or Limited Narrative Theory?

Resisting Post-Deconstructive Space

Reading Time

Struggling with Objects

Narrative and Post-Deconstructive Ethics

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-190) and index.

ISBN:

0-7914-8764-4

1-4175-2036-1

OCLC:

61367667