Postmodern Narrative Theory

✍ Scribed by Mark Currie (auth.)

Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Leaves: 176
Series: Transitions
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: Narratology, Death and Afterlife....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
The Manufacture of Identities....Pages 17-32
Terminologisation....Pages 33-50
Theoretical Fiction....Pages 51-70
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Narrative, Politics and History....Pages 73-95
Culture and Schizophrenia....Pages 96-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
True Lies: Unreliable Identities in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ....Pages 117-134
The Dark Clouds of Enlightenment: Socio- narratology and Heart of Darkness ....Pages 135-151
Back Matter....Pages 152-169

✦ Subjects

Literary Theory; Cultural Studies

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