Telling Stories
Subtitle: postmodernism and the invalidation of traditional narrative
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Lanham, Md.
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780847680429
Table of contents: title: Part one : Traditional story.; title: The preclusive form of narrative; title: Stories connect us; title: Fictive figures must think they are free; title: Plot; title: Plot and necessity; title: Plot and the sacred; title: The desacralization of story; title: Story and consciousness; title: Story as paradox; title: Story affirms what it denies; title: Part two : Postmodernism and traditional narrative.; title: We have always been positivists; title: We don't and do believe in stories; title: Postmodern theory and traditional art; title: Deconstruction liberates and enables; title: Invalidating traditional aesthetics; title: Traditional story is on the right; title: Invalidating the privileged realm; title: The rejection of empathy; title: The invalidation of experience; title: Part three : Storytellers new and old.; title: Popular stories; title: Four storytellers and the enlightened tradition; title: Henry James, postmodernist; title: Part four : And now?; title: The death of God; title: Postmodernism and the death of man; title: Envoy