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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... instance, New York is 'rapidly vanishing into the chasm between its actual life and its preferred narratives'. As reportage switched from a pragmatic acceptance of the danger of open spaces at night to an ideal construct whereby New ...
... instance, New York is 'rapidly vanishing into the chasm between its actual life and its preferred narratives'. As reportage switched from a pragmatic acceptance of the danger of open spaces at night to an ideal construct whereby New ...
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... instances of narrative in practice. Turning to narratives - modern novels - allows for observation of how identity is constructed, through attention to content and form: plot and characterization; and narrative structure, style and ...
... instances of narrative in practice. Turning to narratives - modern novels - allows for observation of how identity is constructed, through attention to content and form: plot and characterization; and narrative structure, style and ...
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... instance, in the interest in memory, or continuity over time. However, I do want to distinguish between the two terms, to establish a sense of identity, as distinct from self, beyond the understandings presently on offer, making the ...
... instance, in the interest in memory, or continuity over time. However, I do want to distinguish between the two terms, to establish a sense of identity, as distinct from self, beyond the understandings presently on offer, making the ...
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... instance, 'no children are ever born, and nobody ever dies, in this constructed world. There are states, and they are what is' (Elshtain 1987). The person whose identity is of interest to political theory can be strangely characterless ...
... instance, 'no children are ever born, and nobody ever dies, in this constructed world. There are states, and they are what is' (Elshtain 1987). The person whose identity is of interest to political theory can be strangely characterless ...
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... instance). Post-realist modern novels adopt a more questioning attitude in respect of form and content. The techniques, structure, style and methods of characterization of the novels read in the following chapters are such as to ...
... instance). Post-realist modern novels adopt a more questioning attitude in respect of form and content. The techniques, structure, style and methods of characterization of the novels read in the following chapters are such as to ...
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