Roemer, Michael,  1928- <br/><br/>
Telling stories :  postmodernism and the invalidation of traditional narrative / 
Michael Roemer. 
 - xi, 499 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-487) and index. 
<br/><br/> Acknowledgments --  The Preclusive Form of Narrative --  Stories Connect Us --  Fictive Figures Must Think They Are Free --  Plot --  Plot and Necessity --  Plot and the Sacred --  The Desacralization of Story --  Story and Consciousness --  Story as Paradox --  Story Affirms What It Denies --  We Have Always Been 'Positivists' --  We Don't and Do Believe in Stories --  Postmodern Theory and Traditional Art --  Deconstruction Liberates and Enables --  Invalidating Traditional Aesthetics --  Traditional Story Is "On the Right" --  Invalidating the Privileged Realm --  The Rejection of Empathy --  The Invalidation of Experience --  Popular Stories --  Four Storytellers and the Enlightened Tradition --  Henry James, Postmodernist --  The Death of God --  Postmodernism and the Death of Man --  Envoy --  Notes --  Index.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11.  12.  13.  14.  15.  16.  17.  18.  19.  20.  21.  22.  23.  24.  25. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0847680428 9780847680429 084768041X 9780847680412 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>95001677 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Postmodernism (Literature)<br/>Narration (Rhetoric)<br/>Storytelling
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN56.P53  / R64 1995 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>801.95