Cycles of Influence
Subtitle: Fiction, Folktale, Theory
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780814329498
Subjects: Folklore; Literary studies: general; General; Semiotics & Theory; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Fiction; History and criticism; Literature and folklore; Postmodernism (Literature); Tales
Description: In this wide-ranging and insightful analysis, the author proposes a poetics of narrative for postmodernism by placing new emphasis on the folktale. He beings by examining the key features of folktales: their emphasis on a chain of events rather than description or consciousness, their emphasis on a self-contained fictional environment rather than realism, the presence of a storyteller as a self-confessed fabricator, their oral and communal status, and their ever-changing state, which defies authoritative versions.