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100 2 $aRimmon-Kenan, Shlomith.
245 12 $aA glance beyond doubt :$bnarration,
representation, subjectivity /$cShlomith Rimmon-Kenan.
260 $aColumbus :$bOhio State University Press,$cc1996.
300 $axi, 160 p. ;$c22 cm.
440 4 $aThe Theory and interpretation of narrative
series.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 145-152)
and index.
520 $aFocusing 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.
520 8 $aA 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.
650 0 $aMimesis in literature.
650 0 $aSubjectivity in literature.
650 0 $aNarration (Rhetoric)
