Identity, Narrative and PoliticsRoutledge, 4 apr 2014 - 192 pagina's Identity, Narrative and Politics argues that political theory has barely begun to develop a notion of narrative identity; instead the book explores the sophisticated ideas which emerge from novels as alternative expressions of political understanding. This title uses a broad international selection of Twentieth Century English language works, by writers such as Nadine Gordimer and Thomas Pynchon. The book considers each novel as a source of political ideas in terms of content, structure, form and technique. The book assumes no prior knowledge of the literature discussed, and will be fascinating reading for students of literature, politics and cultural studies. |
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... character', and 'the reduction of events to narrative' as the 'heart of the way the city presents itself. And this narrative, 'with its dramatic line of "crisis" and resolution, or recovery', obscures race and class tensions, civic and ...
... character', and 'the reduction of events to narrative' as the 'heart of the way the city presents itself. And this narrative, 'with its dramatic line of "crisis" and resolution, or recovery', obscures race and class tensions, civic and ...
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... characters and events, together with commentary on them, have been put together to present - show - a certain interpretation of a set of facts. And her talk of conspiracy, or herself omitting to 2 Identity, narrative and politics.
... characters and events, together with commentary on them, have been put together to present - show - a certain interpretation of a set of facts. And her talk of conspiracy, or herself omitting to 2 Identity, narrative and politics.
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... characters are not neatly disposed of. Two major points emerge from Didion's strictures on the (mis) use, or even danger, of narrative in real-life situations. One is that narrative method, explaining what is happening by way of ...
... characters are not neatly disposed of. Two major points emerge from Didion's strictures on the (mis) use, or even danger, of narrative in real-life situations. One is that narrative method, explaining what is happening by way of ...
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... - show in practice - features of narrative that are politically relevant, and their characters depict the problems of constructing identity. I draw from narrative theory to suggest that I Identity, narrative and politics.
... - show in practice - features of narrative that are politically relevant, and their characters depict the problems of constructing identity. I draw from narrative theory to suggest that I Identity, narrative and politics.
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... characters with fixed motivation moves towards a fixed or conventional ending and emplotment is tied to clear pursuit of certain outcomes (marriage and money, for instance). Post-realist modern novels adopt a more questioning attitude ...
... characters with fixed motivation moves towards a fixed or conventional ending and emplotment is tied to clear pursuit of certain outcomes (marriage and money, for instance). Post-realist modern novels adopt a more questioning attitude ...
Inhoudsopgave
The narrative construction of identity | 22 |
Uncertain identity | 43 |
Gaps and fragments | 64 |
Contingency identity and agency | 87 |
Coherent identity | 107 |
Narrative identity and politics | 127 |
Postscript | 150 |
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Aaron action agency Alford argument ascription Benhabib Book of Daniel chance character characteristics characterization choice Clarissa closure coherence concept Connolly construction of identity contingency Crying of Lot cultural Dalloway depiction double embedded emplotment entails example fictional fragmentation Hillela human idea of narrative identified identity is constructed identity politics individual instance Isaacsons Israeli John Demjanjuk Leviathan literary lives MacIntyre MacIntyre's meaning modern novels modernist multiple narration narrative construction narrative identity narrative political identity narrative structure narrative telling narrative voice novel Oedipa Operation Shylock particular Paul Auster person Philip Roth Pipik plot point of view political order political theory possible post-realist postmodern present problem question Randall recognition reference relation relationship relevant Roth's Sachs Sachs's sense social splitting story storytelling suggests theoretical theorists Thomas Pynchon tion tive told unified unity unreliable narration Virginia Woolf Whaila Whitebrook writing Ziad