Narrative after Deconstruction

Daniel Punday

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English

State Univ New York Press
01 January 2003

Writing & editing guides; Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary theory; Literary studies: general

Develops a rigorous theory of narrative as apost-deconstructive model for interpretation.

By: Daniel Punday
Imprint: State Univ New York Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 336g
ISBN: 9780791455722
ISBN 10: 0791455726
Publication Date: 01 January 2003
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface 1. THE NARRATIVE TURN Deconstruction and Narrative Narrative Totality and Narrative Openness Recent Theories of Materiality 2. DECONSTRUCTION AND THE WORLDLY TEXT Localizing Deconstruction Rethinking Deconstructive Space Producing Space in the Worldly Text The Multiple Spaces of Post-Deconstructive Narrative Derrida after Deconstruction 3. THE SEARCH FOR FORM IN AMERICAN POSTMODERN FICTION Problems in the Poetics of Postmodern Fiction Defining Form in Postmodern Fiction Negotiating Materiality in Postmodern Fiction 4. A GENERAL OR LIMITED NARRATIVE THEORY? Universal Narrative Forms? Revising Spatial Form The Feel of Multiple Spaces 5. RESISTING POST-DECONSTRUCTIVE SPACE Space and Commodity Culture Jameson's Resistance to Postmodern Space The Open Landscape 6. READING TIME Temporality in the Worldly Text Theories of Reading Process A Poetics of the Hesitating Text One and Several Sites 7. STRUGGLING WITH OBJECTS Respect for the Concrete Problems of the Antihegemonic Concrete Describing Whole Objects 8. NARRATIVE AND POST-DECONSTRUCTIVE ETHICS Ethics after Deconstruction The Ruins of the Other Conclusions Notes Works Cited Index

Reviews for Narrative after Deconstruction

"""…Punday provides a rich reading of deconstruction and narrative theory by looking at contemporary critics and experimental novelists."" — CHOICE ""…a well-researched study that seeks to coordinate frameworks for inquiry (e.g., cultural geography, feminist theories of materiality, and deconstructive literary theory) whose interconnections indeed deserve to be explored more fully."" — Poetics Today ""Narrative after Deconstruction offers a lucid, erudite, and persuasive argument for rethinking contemporary narration in light of, and in response to, the deconstructive questionings of the previous decades. This book is engaging, insightful, and accessible, in spite of the difficult theories that it unpacks."" — Marcel Cornis-Pope, author of Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting in the Cold War Era and After ""Punday provides new insights into the field of critical theory by formulating unique spatial/temporal distinctions for understanding narrative in the aftermath of deconstruction."" — M. W. Smith, author of Reading Simulacra: Fatal Theories for Postmodernity"