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This collection brings together essays that reflect on the nature of narrative, literary criticism and history from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, ranging from deconstruction, psychoanalysis and trauma theory, to narratology, technology, economics and aesthetics. This book includes responses from renowned scholars across a wide range of disciplines, philosopher Jacques Derrida, the literary critic J. Hillis Miller, W.J.T. Mitchell - well-known for his reflections on the visual world - and Cathy Caruth, one of the founders of the field of trauma theory. These essays are readings of other texts but each becomes itself a narrative performance. What starts out as an exercise in theorizing and reading moves, more often than not, into a meditation on social and political issues crucial for our own sense of ourselves.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary theory

• Full title: Acts of Narrative
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 296
• EAN: 9780804746502
• ISBN: 0804746508
• ID: 04717576
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 517 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. July 2003

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