Stories, Theories and Things
Stories, Theories and Things
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The novelist and critic Christine Brooke-Rose reflects on her own fictional craft and turns her well-developed analytic abilities on other writers fictional and critical, from Hawthorne to Pound to Bloom and Derrida, in an attempt to investigate those difficult border zones between the 'invented' and the 'real'. The result is an extended meditation in a highly personal idiom, on the creative act and its relation to modern theoretical writing and thinking. Like her fiction, Professor Brooke-Rose's criticism is self-consciously experimental, trying out and discarding ideas, adopting others. Her linguistic prowess, her uncommon role as a recognised writer of fiction and theory and the relevance of her work to the feminist and other other movements, all contribute to the interest of this unusual sequence of essays.
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January 1991Hardback
9780521391818
320 pages
223 × 146 × 24 mm
0.506kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I. Theories as stories:
- 1. Stories, theories and things
- 2. Whatever happened to narratology?
- 3. Is is, is id?
- Part II. Stories and style:
- 4. A for but: Hawthorne's 'The Custom-House'
- 5. Ill locutions
- 6. Ill logics of irony
- 7. Ill wit and sick tragedy
- 8. Cheng Ming Chi'I'd
- 9. Notes on the metre of Auden's The Age of Anxiety
- Part III. Theories of stories:
- 10. Fiction, figment, feign
- 11. Which way did they go? Thataways
- 12. Palimpsest history
- 13. Illusions of parody
- 14. Illusions of anti-realism
- 15. A womb of one's own?
- Part IV. Things?:
- 16. Woman as semiotic object
- 17. Illiterations
- 18. Ill wit and good humour
- 19. An allegory of aesthetics
- References
- Index.
