The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory [electronic resource] : The Crisis and Return of Storytelling from Robbe-Grillet to Tournier /
Meretoja, H.author.
The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory explores the philosophical and historical underpinnings of the postwar crisis and return of storytelling and shows their relevance for the ongoing debate on the significance of narrative for human existence.
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Cover; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Two narrative turns: Theoretical and cultural; Storytelling and subjectivity: Ontology, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics; The modern individual as a constructor of narrative order; The postwar crisis of storytelling; The hermeneutic revival of storytelling; Narrative hermeneutics: Literature at the crossroads of philosophy and history; Part I; 2 Textual Labyrinths: Robbe-Grillet's Antinarrative Aesthetics; Narrativizations of Dans le labyrinthe; Whose experience, in what world?
Textual machines, narrative constructions: The reader in the labyrinthTextual formalism: Radicalizing the modern aesthetics of autonomy; 3 The Epistemology and Ontology of Antinarrativism; Narrativity as an imposition of meaningful order: White and Strawson, Sartre and Barthes; The epistemological and ontological underpinnings of the nouveau roman; Phenomenology, the nouveau roman and the crisis of narrative sense-making; The empiricist-positivistic dimension of antinarrativism; Against pre-established meanings: The postphenomenological subject; 4 Antinarrativist Ethics in the Postwar Context
Ethics of non-comprehension in the age of suspicionReification, war and reduced agency: The subject as a cog in the machine; 'They are mere café tacticians who remake History to suit themselves'; Against the myth of naturalness; Part II; 5 Reengagement with the World: Towards an Aesthetics of Dialogical Intertextuality; From the 'age of suspicion' to the affirmation of the 'mythical animal'; The multidimensional Le Roi des Aulnes; Dialogical intertextuality; The Romantic-hermeneutic tradition: Narrative and human existence; 6 Narrative Hermeneutics and Dialogical Subjectivity
Living vs telling: Time, experience and hermeneutic ontologyMythical experience and the existential significance of narrative; The ambiguity and processuality of the subject; Dialogical narrativity; 7 Ethics of Storytelling: History, Power, Otherness; Collective narrative identity and reification; Narrative identity and the ethics of encountering the other; Myth, history - and white laughter; The ethical potential of cultural narratives; Ethics of storytelling after the age of suspicion; 8 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory explores the philosophical and historical underpinnings of the postwar crisis and return of storytelling and shows their relevance for the ongoing debate on the significance of narrative for human existence.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
European literature.
Literature—History and criticism.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
European Literature.
Literary History.