The politics of reflexivity: narrative and the constitutive poetics of culture

Amelia Angela Carter argues assumptions authentic Barral Becky becomes chance chapter characters codes coherence concept Conrad consciousness constitutive poetics conventions course cultural discourse economic elements epigraphs example existential existentialist experience fact feels fiction figure final Flora Fowles Fowles's frame French Lieutenant's Woman function Fyne ground Hence human ideal ideological illusion imagination implications individual interpretation intertextual irony Jeremiah John Fowles language lines literary logocentric Lord Jim Marlow material means metafiction metaphor metaphysical moral narrative narrator narrator's nature Nietzsche Nietzschean notion novel novelist omniscient paradigm passage perhaps philosophical play plot possible Powell Rabbit reader reading reality reflexive relation rhetorical Robert Penn Warren role romantic seems selfhood semiotic sense sexual shape social stance story structure stylized suggests tells textual Thackeray Thackeray's theme theory things tion tive traditional truth Vanity Fair Victorian voice Wayne Booth words writing