Allegories of telling : self-referential narrative in contemporary British fiction
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Allegories of telling : self-referential narrative in contemporary British fiction
（Costerus, new ser.,
Rodopi, 2003
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-176) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Allegories of Telling: Self-Referential Narrative in Contemporary British Fiction has as its founding premise Ross Chambers's notion that "one of the important powers of fiction is its power to theorize the act of storytelling in and through the act of storytelling." In this critical study, Lynn Wells presents detailed readings of novels by five prominent British authors - John Fowles, Angela Carter, Graham Swift, A.S. Byatt and Salman Rushdie - with an emphasis on how the texts' self-referential aspects illuminate the acts of reading and writing fiction in contemporary Britain and, by extension, around the world. The book begins by situating contemporary British fiction historically as the product of an "aesthetics of compromise" arising from the "realism versus experimentalism" debate that consumed the English literary establishment during the 1960s. In her discussion of the texts, Lynn Wells then draws on a wide range of theoretical approaches, from narrative and psychoanalytic theory to existentialist philosophy and the historiographic ideas of thinkers such as Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault and Giambattista Vico. These original readings challenge superficial "postmodern" interpretations of contemporary British fiction as pessimistically anti-historical, and reassert the value of readerly engagement and narrative reconstruction of the past.
目次
Introduction
Chapter One: Narrative as Seduction: John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman
Chapter Two: A Postmodern Allegory of Reading: Angela Carter's The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
Chapter Three: The Whole Story: Graham Swift's Waterland
Chapter Four: Corso, Ricorso: Historical Repetition and Cultural Reflection in A.S. Byatt's Possession: A Romance
Chapter Five: Unfinished Business: Intertextuality and Historiography in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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