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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Pagina 3
... ordering of events - the fundamental element of narrative. Didion speaks of 'a reading that promises both resolution and retribution' but the imposition of a narrative framework does not thereby entail 'resolution'. Narrative theory ...
... ordering of events - the fundamental element of narrative. Didion speaks of 'a reading that promises both resolution and retribution' but the imposition of a narrative framework does not thereby entail 'resolution'. Narrative theory ...
Pagina 5
... political theory, and thence assist political understanding. Theorists may, of course, use 'narrative' merely adjectivally ... order: narrative may exhibit lack of pattern, an absence of closure. Such instability may appear politically ...
... political theory, and thence assist political understanding. Theorists may, of course, use 'narrative' merely adjectivally ... order: narrative may exhibit lack of pattern, an absence of closure. Such instability may appear politically ...
Pagina 6
... order of a particular culture and political system. . . . Individuals make themselves out of the matter and according to the patterns that their language provides. (Norton 1988:46-7) It is significant that the language used to express ...
... order of a particular culture and political system. . . . Individuals make themselves out of the matter and according to the patterns that their language provides. (Norton 1988:46-7) It is significant that the language used to express ...
Pagina 9
... political identity may be theorized in two rather different ways: either as a matter of (self-) awareness about the relationship of the person to the political order or as a function of inclusion in political units and as referring to ...
... political identity may be theorized in two rather different ways: either as a matter of (self-) awareness about the relationship of the person to the political order or as a function of inclusion in political units and as referring to ...
Pagina 10
... order to have 'a sense of who we are', to have an identity, 'we have to have a notion of how we have become, and of where we are going'; we grasp a sense of our lives in a narrative - 'I understand my present action in the form of an ...
... order to have 'a sense of who we are', to have an identity, 'we have to have a notion of how we have become, and of where we are going'; we grasp a sense of our lives in a narrative - 'I understand my present action in the form of an ...
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