Acts of Narrative / ed. by Carol Jacobs, Henry Sussman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bowlby, Rachel, Contributor.

Caruth, Cathy, Contributor.

Cohen, Tom, Contributor.

Derrida, Jacques, Contributor.

Elam, Diane, Contributor.

Jacobs, Carol, Contributor.

Jacobs, Carol, Editor.

Liu, Alan, Contributor.

Miller, J. Hillis, Contributor.

Mitchell, W. J. T., Contributor.

Paulson, Ronald, 1930-2024, Contributor.

Royle, Nicholas, Contributor.

Schleifer, Ronald, Contributor.

Sussman, Henry, Contributor.

Sussman, Henry, Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This outstanding collection brings together essays that reflect on the nature of narrative, literary criticism, and history from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, ranging from deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and trauma theory, to narratology, technology, economics, and aesthetics. Acts of Narrative includes responses from renowned scholars across a wide range of disciplines: philosopher Jacques Derrida; the literary critic J. Hillis Miller; W. J. T. Mitchell, well-known for his reflections on the visual world; and Cathy Caruth, one of the founders of the field of trauma theory. These essays are brilliant in their readings of other texts, but are also striking in the manner in which each becomes itself a narrative performance. Moreover, what starts out as an exercise in theorizing and reading moves, more often than not, into a meditation on social and political issues crucial for our own sense of ourselves.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface: The Place of Narrative

CHAPTER 1 J. Hillis Miller and the Task of the Critic

CHAPTER 2 Lying Against Death: Out of the Loop

CHAPTER 3 Waiting in the Wings

CHAPTER 4 Parting Words: Trauma, Silence, and Survival

CHAPTER 5 The Other Day: The Interpretation of Daydreams

CHAPTER 6 Difference Behind Similarity: Focalization in Third-Person Center-of-Consciousness and First-Person Retrospective Narration

CHAPTER 7 The "Telepathy Effect": Notes toward a Reconsideration of Narrative Fiction

CHAPTER 8 Trackings

CHAPTER 9 The Rape of the Lock: A Jacobite Aesthetics?

CHAPTER 10 The Serpent in the Wilderness: Space, Place, and Landscape in the Eighteenth Century

CHAPTER 11 Narrative Discourse and a New Sense of Value: Meaning and Purpose in the Neoclassical Economics of Alfred Marshall

CHAPTER 12 Sidney's Technology: A Critique by Technology of Literary History

CHAPTER 13 "Le Parjure," Perhaps: Storytelling and Lying ("abrupt breaches of syntax")

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-2053-0

OCLC:

1294424845