Postmodern Narrative Theory (Transitions) - Hardcover

Mark Currie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333687787 ISBN 13: 9780333687789

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998

Synopsis

How have developments in literary and cultural theory transformed our understanding of narrative? What has happened to narrative in the wake of poststructuralism? What is the role and function of narrative in the contemporary world?In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores these central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Postmodern Narrative Theory , Secondestablishes direct links between the workings of fictional narratives and those of the non-fictional worldcharts the transition in narrative theory from its formalist beginnings, through deconstruction, towards its current concerns with the social, cultural and cognitive uses of narrativeexplores the relationship between postmodern narrative and postmodern theory more closelypresents detailed illustrative readings of known literary texts such as Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and now features a new chapter on Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and Slow Man.Approachable and stimulating, this is an essential introduction for anyone studying postmodernism, the theory of narrative or contemporary fiction.

About this title

About the Author

Mark Currie is Lecturer in English at the University of Dundee.

Review

"A highly intelligent study, covering all the relevant theoretical issues skillfully and clearly." --Professor Frank Kermode, Cambridge University

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0333687787
• ISBN 13: 9780333687789
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 184