| Acts of Narrative Contributor(s): Jacobs, Carol (Editor), Sussman, Henry (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0804746516 ISBN-13: 9780804746519 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $36.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2003 Annotation: "Acts of Narrative explores different facets of narrative with historical and thematic breadth, and each of the essays is a remarkable narrative act in its own right. Taken as a whole, the collection is a powerful demonstration of how the intersections between psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, and performative theory change our understanding of narrative and its function in cultural life." --Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, University of Notre Dame |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 820.923 |
| LCCN: 2003002091 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.34" W x 8.9" (0.87 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |