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Narrative Bodies

Toward a Corporeal Narratology

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction Narrative’s Lost Body

    • Daniel Punday
    Pages 1-15

  3. Conceiving Modern Narrative

    • Daniel Punday
    Pages 17-51

  4. Sorted and General Character Bodies

    • Daniel Punday
    Pages 53-83

  5. Plot and the Unruly Body

    • Daniel Punday
    Pages 85-116

  6. The Body and Kinetic Space

    • Daniel Punday
    Pages 117-148

  7. Embodiment and Lightness in Narration

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    Pages 149-184

  8. Conclusion Redefining Narrative

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    Pages 185-190

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 191-234
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About this book

Although the body has recently emerged throughout the humanities and social sciences as an object revealing the power and limits of representation, the study of narrative has almost entirely ignored human corporeality. As this book shows, attention to the body raises uncomfortable questions about the historicity of basic narrative concepts like character, plot, and narration - questions that critics would often prefer to ignore. Daniel Punday argues that narrative itself is a concept constructed by modern-day critics based on assumptions about identity, desire, movement and place that depend on modern ways of thinking about corporeality.

About the author

DANIEL PUNDAY is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University Calumet, and is the author of Narrative after Deconstruction.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Narrative Bodies

  • Book Subtitle: Toward a Corporeal Narratology

  • Authors: Daniel Punday

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403981653

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6241-6Published: 20 August 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-52694-9Published: 20 August 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-8165-3Published: 13 June 2003

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 234

  • Topics: Literary Theory

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