Narrative being vs. narrating being / edited by Armela Panajoti and Marija Krivokapić.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Panajoti, Armela, editor.

Krivokapić, Marija, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature).

Fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

This edited volume focuses on Anglo-American modernist fiction, offering challenging perspectives that consider modernism in the instances in which it transcends itself, moving, broadly speaking, towards postmodernist self-irony. As such, the contributions here discuss issues such as being in creation; narrativizing being and creation; the relation between being and narrative; the situation of being in narrative time and space; the relation between authority and narrative; possible authority over narrative and the authority of narrative; interaction between narrative and the other; the authori

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Introduction

PART ONE: TOWARDS HIGH MODERNISM

Being in Creation, Creation in Being in Lord Jim

D. H. Lawrence's Authorial Dilemmas

The "Idea" of the Self

"How Can We Know The Dancer From The Dance?"

Joyce's Religious Being and His Narrative

Network Theory Approach to Mrs. Dalloway

Ernest Hemingway's (In)Articulate Silence and the Modernist Suspicion of Words

Aldous Huxley's Island

Death vs. Eternity in Aldous Huxley's Novel After Many a Summer

PART TWO: AFTER MODERNISM

Briony's Polylogue

Unreliable Memoirist

Narrative Strategies in Contemporary American Women Writers

The Manipulation of the Narrative in the Hands of Toni Morrison

Disgrace

Life versus Fiction

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 17, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8658-0

OCLC:

930994420