TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roemer,Michael
TI  - Telling stories: postmodernism and the invalidation of traditional narrative 
SN  - 0847680428
AV  - PN56.P53 R64 1995
U1  - 801.95 
PY  - 1995///]
CY  - Lanham, Md.
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield
KW  - Postmodernism (Literature)
KW  - Narration (Rhetoric)
KW  - Storytelling
N1  - 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
ER  -