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Telling stories : postmodernism and the invalidation of traditional narrative / Michael Roemer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [1995]Copyright date: ©1995Description: xi, 499 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0847680428
  • 9780847680429
  • 084768041X
  • 9780847680412
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 801.95
LOC classification:
  • PN56.P53 R64 1995
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- 1. The Preclusive Form of Narrative -- 2. Stories Connect Us -- 3. Fictive Figures Must Think They Are Free -- 4. Plot -- 5. Plot and Necessity -- 6. Plot and the Sacred -- 7. The Desacralization of Story -- 8. Story and Consciousness -- 9. Story as Paradox -- 10. Story Affirms What It Denies -- 11. We Have Always Been 'Positivists' -- 12. We Don't and Do Believe in Stories -- 13. Postmodern Theory and Traditional Art -- 14. Deconstruction Liberates and Enables -- 15. Invalidating Traditional Aesthetics -- 16. Traditional Story Is "On the Right" -- 17. Invalidating the Privileged Realm -- 18. The Rejection of Empathy -- 19. The Invalidation of Experience -- 20. Popular Stories -- 21. Four Storytellers and the Enlightened Tradition -- 22. Henry James, Postmodernist -- 23. The Death of God -- 24. Postmodernism and the Death of Man -- 25. Envoy -- Notes -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-487) and index.

Acknowledgments -- 1. The Preclusive Form of Narrative -- 2. Stories Connect Us -- 3. Fictive Figures Must Think They Are Free -- 4. Plot -- 5. Plot and Necessity -- 6. Plot and the Sacred -- 7. The Desacralization of Story -- 8. Story and Consciousness -- 9. Story as Paradox -- 10. Story Affirms What It Denies -- 11. We Have Always Been 'Positivists' -- 12. We Don't and Do Believe in Stories -- 13. Postmodern Theory and Traditional Art -- 14. Deconstruction Liberates and Enables -- 15. Invalidating Traditional Aesthetics -- 16. Traditional Story Is "On the Right" -- 17. Invalidating the Privileged Realm -- 18. The Rejection of Empathy -- 19. The Invalidation of Experience -- 20. Popular Stories -- 21. Four Storytellers and the Enlightened Tradition -- 22. Henry James, Postmodernist -- 23. The Death of God -- 24. Postmodernism and the Death of Man -- 25. Envoy -- Notes -- Index.

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