A glance beyond doubt
A glance beyond doubt: narration, representation, subjectivity Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan
Publisher: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c1996.
ISBN: 0814207073
DDC: 801.95
Edition: (pbk. : alk. paper)
Summary:
Focusing on William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Vladimir Nabokov's
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Christine Brooke-Rose's Thru,
Samuel Beckett's Company, and Toni Morrison's Beloved, Rimmon-Kenan
shows how modes of narration participate in the exploration of the
problematics of representation and subjectivity. Her insightful
analyses of the narrative strategies of these five novels demonstrate
her point that narration itself provides a special access to
representation and subjectivity. In addition, these analyses offer a
compelling example of what it means to claim that we can treat
narrative as theory.
A Glance beyond Doubt thus provides an important methodological
contribution to narrative studies while offering fresh and
sophisticated readings of important modernist and postmodernist
novels. Rimmon-Kenan's work is valuable for students of narrative and
of twentieth-century literature, and it has important implications
for other disciplines now studying narrative, especially philosophy,
historiography, psychoanalysis, and jurisprudence.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-152) and index.
Click on a subject to see other books listed with the same
subject or to drill down into components of the subject -- such as
geographical locations, dates and so on.
We query many merchants so that you can instantly
compare prices and
availability. You can even check historic prices and subscribe
for notifications. For a manual check, clicking on a link will open a
new window with a search for this book on the merchant's site of your
choice.
