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Towards a Postmodern Theory of Narrative

By Andrew Gibson

Book information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9780585124063
DOI
10.1515/9780585124063
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
29 MB (30000080 bytes)
Pages
300\308
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 03:03:44

Description

This study re-examines narrative theory and outlines the consequences for narratology of deconstructive, poststructuralist and more recent theory. Andrew Gibson assesses the extent to which narrative theory might be rethought in their light, drawing on the work of Derrida, Deleuze, Lyotard and Foucault. Consistently relating his theoretical investigations to critical practice, Gibson makes telling and perceptive analyses of a variety of twentieth-centry texts including work by Joyce, Fielding, Beckett, Lawrence, Woolf, R L Stevenson, Kundera, Tarkovsky and others. This is an important contribution to contemporary work on narrative.

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