Towards a Postmodern Theory of Narrative (Postmodern Theory) - Softcover

Gibson, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748608419 ISBN 13: 9780748608416

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 1996

Synopsis

This study re-examines narrative theory and outlines the consequences for narratology of deconstructive, poststructuralist and more recent theory. Andrew Gibson assesses the extent to which narrative theory might be rethought in their light, drawing on the work of Derrida, Deleuze, Lyotard and Foucault. Consistently relating his theoretical investigations to critical practice, Gibson makes telling and perceptive analyses of a variety of twentieth-centry texts including work by Joyce, Fielding, Beckett, Lawrence, Woolf, R L Stevenson, Kundera, Tarkovsky and others. This is an important contribution to contemporary work on narrative.

About this title

About the Author:

Andrew Gibson is Research Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a member of the Conseil scientifique of the College international de philosophie in Paris. He is the author of Beckett and Badious: The Pathos of Intermittenccy (Oxford University Press, 2006), James Joyce: A Critical Life (Reaktion, 2006) and Towards a Postmodern Theory of Narrative (EUP, 1996).

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0748608419
• ISBN 13: 9780748608416
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300