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9780847680429

Telling Stories : Postmodernism and the Invalidation of Traditional Narrative

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    9780847680429

  • ISBN10:

    0847680428

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1995-10-01
  • Publisher: Natl Book Network
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Summary

Asks important questions about the very nature of stories--examines why we read stories rather than just learning the endings.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
PART ONE: TRADITIONAL STORY
The Preclusive Form of Narrative
3(8)
Stories Connect Us
11(8)
Fictive Figures Must Think They Are Free
19(20)
Plot
39(12)
Plot and Necessity
51(6)
Plot and the Sacred
57(12)
The Desacralization of Story
69(22)
Story and Consciousness
91(16)
Story as Paradox
107(22)
Story Affirms What It Denies
129(28)
PART TWO: POSTMODERNISM AND TRADITIONAL NARRATIVE
We Have Always Been `Positivists'
157(20)
We Don't and Do Believe in Stories
177(8)
Postmodern Theory and Traditional Art
185(10)
Deconstruction Liberates and Enables
195(8)
Invalidating Traditional Aesthetics
203(18)
Traditional Story Is ``On the Right''
221(12)
Invalidating the Privileged Realm
233(8)
The Rejection of Empathy
241(8)
The Invalidation of Experience
249(22)
PART THREE: STORYTELLERS---NEW AND OLD
Popular Stories
271(20)
Four Storytellers and the Enlightened Tradition
291(28)
Henry James, Postmodernist
319(34)
PART FOUR: AND NOW?
The Death of God
353(10)
Postmodernism and the Death of Man
363(10)
Envoy
373(14)
Notes 387(102)
Index 489

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