| End of Story Contributor(s): Sartwell, Crispin (Author) |
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ISBN: 079144726X ISBN-13: 9780791447260 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $32.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2000 Annotation: In End of Story, Crispin Sartwell maintains that the academy is obsessed with language, and with narrative in particular. Narrative has been held to constitute or explain time, action, value, history, and human identity. Sartwell argues that this obsession with language and narrative has become a sort of disease. Pitting such thinkers as Kierkegaard, Bataille, and Epictetus against the narrativism of MacIntyre, Ricoeur, and Aristotle, Sartwell celebrates the ways narratives and selves disintegrate and recommends a lapse into ecstatic or mundane incoherence. As the book rollicks through Wodehouse, Thoreau, the Book of Job, still-life painting, and Sartwell's autobiography, there emerges a hopeful if bizarre new sense of who we are and what we can be. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 401 |
| LCCN: 00038769 |
| Physical Information: 0.29" H x 5.79" W x 8.86" (0.48 lbs) 150 pages |