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Postmodern Narrative Theory

  • Textbook
  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. Mark Currie
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  • Uses practical readings of known literary texts to illustrate new narratological procedures and how students can practically use theory
    Takes into account the relationship of theory to popular culture, using both literary and nonliterary examples
    Analyses the role of narrative in contemporary literature and culture a study central to literary theory courses

Part of the book series: Transitions (TRANSs)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Narratology, Death and Afterlife

    1. Introduction: Narratology, Death and Afterlife

      • Mark Currie
      Pages 1-14

  3. Lost Objects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. The Manufacture of Identities

      • Mark Currie
      Pages 17-32

    3. Terminologisation

      • Mark Currie
      Pages 33-50

    4. Theoretical Fiction

      • Mark Currie
      Pages 51-70

  4. Narrative Time and Space

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
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    2. Narrative, Politics and History

      • Mark Currie
      Pages 73-95

    3. Culture and Schizophrenia

      • Mark Currie
      Pages 96-113

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 152-169
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About this book

We live in a world of narrative overload, and narratology is beginning to rise to the challenge. The expertise that has evolved in literary studies through the twentieth century now finds applications in every corner of culture, wherever thought and representation operate in the mode of storytelling. This book is an accessible and stimulating summary of the often over-complex theories that have transformed the study of narrative in recent decades. In its theoretical discussions and critical readings, the book plots the connections between fiction, criticism and ideology that represent the contribution of narrative theory to an understanding of postmodern culture.

About the author

MARK CURRIE is Research Professor at the University of East Anglia, Cambridge. In his research to date, he has focused upon the mutual influence of academic theory and fictional writing, including the application of narratological methods to the analysis of critical arguments, and the general question of 'self-consciousness' in fiction, criticism and culture.

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