Acts of narrative
This 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.
Print Book, English, 2003
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2003
Aufsatzsammlung
xx, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780804746502, 9780804746519, 0804746508, 0804746516
51615254
J. Hillis Miller and the task of the critic / Henry Sussman
Lying against death: out of the loop / J. Hillis Miller
Waiting in the wings / Diane Elam
Parting words: trauma, silence, and survival / Cathy Caruth
The other day: the interpretation of daydreams / Rachel Bowlby
Difference behind similarity: focalization in third-person center-of-consciousness and first-person retrospective narration / Dan Shen
The "telepathy effect": notes toward a reconsideration of narrative fiction / Nicholas Royle
Trackings / Tom Cohen
The Rape of the Lock: a Jacobite aesthetics? / Ronald Paulson
The Serpent in the Wilderness: space, place, and landscape in the eighteenth century / W.J.T. Mitchell
Narrative discourse and a new sense of value: meaning and purpose in the neoclassical economics of Alfred Marshall / Ronald Schleifer
Sidney's technology: a critique by technology of literary history / Alan Liu
"Le Parjure," Perhaps: storytelling and lying "abrupt breaches of syntax") / Jacques Derrida