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Hermeneutic Desire and Critical Rewriting

Narrative Interpretation in the Wake of Poststructuralism

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  • © 1992

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  1. Marcel Cornis-Pope

    1. Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. An ‘Intimate Commerce with Figures’: On Rereading/Rewriting Narratives

    • Marcel Cornis-Pope
    Pages 1-41

  3. The Figures Readers Make: Interpretive Plots in Reader-Oriented Criticism

    • Marcel Cornis-Pope
    Pages 42-81

  4. The Figure of Catachresis and the Plot of Unreadability in Deconstruction

    • Marcel Cornis-Pope
    Pages 82-120

  5. Difficult Figuration: Feminine Signifiers in Male Texts

    • Marcel Cornis-Pope
    Pages 121-161

  6. Figures of Exchange: A Poststructuralist Semiotics of Reading

    • Marcel Cornis-Pope
    Pages 162-200

  7. ‘Limp’ vs. ‘Acute’ Criticism: An Interpretive Community Refigures James

    • Marcel Cornis-Pope
    Pages 201-231

  8. Stringing ‘The Figure in the Carpet’: Seven Readings, Seven Critical Plots

    • Marcel Cornis-Pope
    Pages 232-264

  9. Rereading, Rewriting, Revisioning: Poststructuralist Interpretation and Literary Pedagogy

    • Marcel Cornis-Pope
    Pages 265-297

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 298-357
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About this book

Starting from a comprehensive examination of current poststructuralist and sociosemiotic theories of narrative, this book formulates an interactive model of literary interpretation and pedagogy emphasising process, critical self-awareness and strategies of rereading/rewriting. A literary pedagogy premised on the concept of 'rewriting', the author argues, will enable readers to experience the process of narrative and critical construction creatively.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, UK

    Marcel Cornis-Pope

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MARCEL CORNIS-POPE

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Hermeneutic Desire and Critical Rewriting

  • Book Subtitle: Narrative Interpretation in the Wake of Poststructuralism

  • Authors: Marcel Cornis-Pope

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371378

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

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

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-51474-0Published: 02 December 1991

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37137-8Published: 01 December 1991

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 357

  • Topics: Literary Theory, Poststructuralism

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