Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory - The Crisis and Return of Storytelling From Robbe-Grillet to Tournier

Zusatztext "Hanna Meretoja has written an important! even essential! study of postwar French literary history. ? her study could well serve as a more general intellectual and cultural history of postwar France ? . her study embodies that very dialogical narrativity that is the great achievement of the postwar crisis and return of storytelling." (Charles R. Sullivan! Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature! newprairiepress.org! Vol. 41 (2)! 2017)  Informationen zum Autor Hanna Meretoja is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Tampere, Finland, Adjunct Professor and Research Fellow at the University of Turku, Finland, Visiting Professor at the American University of Paris, France, (2013-14) and leads the research project The Ethics of Storytelling and the Experience of History in Contemporary Arts (Emil Aaltonen Foundation, Finland, 2013-15). She has co-edited several books and published articles on forums such as New Literary History. Klappentext The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory explores the philosophical and historical underpinnings of the postwar crisis and return of storytelling and shows their relevance for the ongoing debate on the significance of narrative for human existence. Zusammenfassung The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory explores the philosophical and historical underpinnings of the postwar crisis and return of storytelling and shows their relevance for the ongoing debate on the significance of narrative for human existence. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction PART I 2. Textual Labyrinths: Robbe-Grillet's Antinarrative Formalism 3. The Epistemology and Ontology of Antinarrativism 4. Ethics of Antinarrativity in the Post-War Context PART II 5. Re-Engagement with the World: Towards an Aesthetics of Dialogical Intertextuality 6. Narrative Hermeneutics and Dialogical Subjectivity 7. Ethics of Storytelling: History, Power, Otherness 8. Conclusion Bibliography Index...

Product details

• Authors: H Meretoja, H. Meretoja, Hanna Meretoja
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349486281
• ISBN: 978-1-349-48628-1
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature; Palgrave Studies in Modern Eur; Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature; Palgrave Studies in Modern Eur
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Europa, B, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy