Re-forming the Narrative
Author | : David Hayman |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780801420054 |
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Author | : David Hayman |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780801420054 |
Author | : A. Timothy Spaulding |
Publisher | : Ohio State University Press |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0814210066 |
The slave experience was a defining one in American history, and not surprisingly, has been a significant and powerful trope in African American literature. In Re-Forming the Past, A. Timothy Spaulding examines contemporary revisions of slave narratives that use elements of the fantastic to redefine the historical and literary constructions of American slavery. In their rejection of mimetic representation and traditional historiography, postmodern slave narratives such as Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada, Octavia Butler's Kindred, Toni Morrison's Beloved, Charles Johnson's Ox Herding Tale and Middle Passage, Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories, and Samuel Delaney's Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand set out to counter the usual slave narrative's reliance on realism and objectivity by creating alternative histories based on subjective, fantastic, and non-realistic representations of slavery. As these texts critique traditional conceptions of history, identity, and aesthetic form, they simultaneously re-invest these concepts with a political agency that harkens back to the original project of the 19th-century slave narratives. In their rejection of mimetic representation and traditional historiography, Spaulding contextualizes postmodern slave narrative. By addressing both literary and popular African American texts, Re-Forming the Past expands discussions of both the African American literary tradition and postmodern culture.
Author | : Elizabeth Darling |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2007-01-24 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1134314973 |
A study of how architects from the late 1920s onwards sought to establish modernism as the dominant ideology in British architecture and to convert the nation to their ideology.
Author | : James Decker |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2006-06-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1134238398 |
In this bold study James M. Decker argues against the commonly held opinion that Henry Miller’s narratives suffer from ‘formlessness’. He instead positions Miller as a stylistic pioneer, whose place must be assured in the American literary canon. From Moloch to Nexus through such widely-read texts as Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Decker examines what Miller calls his ‘spiral form’, a radically digressive style that shifts wildly between realism and the fantastic. Drawing on a variety of narratological and critical sources, as well as Miller’s own aesthetic theories, he highlights that this fragmented narrative style formed part of a sustained critique of modern spiritual decay. A deliberate move rather than a compositional weakness, then, Miller’s style finds a wide variety of antecedents in the work of such figures as Nietzsche, Rabelais, Joyce, Bergson and Whitman, and is viewed by Decker as an attempt to chart the journey of the self through the modern city. Henry Miller and Narrative Form affords readers new insights into some of the most challenging writings of the twentieth century and provides a template for understanding the significance of an extraordinary and inventive narrative form.
Author | : Scott Romine |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : American fiction |
ISBN | : 9780807140444 |
The Narrative Forms of Southern Community contains close readings of five narratives - Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia Scenes, John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow Barn, Thomas Nelson Page's In Ole Virginia, William Alexander Percy's Lanterns on the Levee, and William Faulkner's Light in August - that attempt to mediate or negotiate the social tensions inherent in the stratified world they represent."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Madison Smartt Bell |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2000-04-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0393343073 |
With clarity, verve, and the sure instincts of a good teacher, Madison Smartt Bell offers a roll-up-your-sleeves approach to writing in this much-needed book. Focusing on the big picture as well as the crucial details, Bell examines twelve stories by both established writers (including Peter Taylor, Mary Gaitskill, and Carolyn Chute) and his own former students. A story's use of time, plot, character, and other elements of fiction are analyzed, and readers are challenged to see each story's flaws and strengths. Careful endnotes bring attention to the ways in which various writers use language. Bell urges writers to develop the habit of thinking about form and finding the form that best suits their subject matter and style. His direct and practical advice allows writers to find their own voice and imagination.
Author | : Douglas Jacobsen |
Publisher | : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This book deals with the structure and identity of American Protestantism in the 20th century, calling for a more nuanced, sophisticated profile than the standard bipolar model placing fundamentalism at one end and liberalism at the other.k
Author | : Cynthia J. Davis |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780804737739 |
During the period of the professionalization of American medicine, many authors were concerned with a concurrent urge to use their work as a means to convey their views about the meaning of the body and the origin and cure of disease. This book studies a range of these authors, including Louisa May Alcott, Charles W. Chesnutt, Margaret Fuller, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and William Dean Howells, among others.
Author | : John Pier |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110922649 |
By redefining established topics of narratology, research has become highly diversified. The contributions to this volume neither synthesize developments nor work from shared postulates, but represent a fresh look at ongoing issues. Some scrutinize focalisation in a linguistic framework or in a poststructuralist vein; others take on reliable and unreliable narration in a pronominal perspective or the "unaddressed" reader who upsets the tidy schemes of narrative communication. Also outlined are a possible worlds approach to narrative time, a systematic treatment of metanarrative and a transgeneric application of narratology to poetry. The sequential ordering of narratives as a way of controlling reader response is examined in one article and in another is seen to elicit intertextual configurations. Both divergent and complementary, the contributions seek to integrate into narratological categories and methods the dynamic processes of narrative itself.