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How have developments in literary and cultural theory transformed our understanding of narrative? What has happened to narrative in the wake of poststructuralism? What is the role and function of narrative in the contemporary world? In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores these central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Postmodern Narrative Theory, Second Edition: Establishes direct links between the workings of fictional narratives and those of the non-fictional world Charts the transition in narrative theory from its formalist beginnings, through deconstruction, towards its current concerns with the social, cultural and cognitive uses of narrative Explores the relationship between postmodern narrative and postmodern theory more closely Presents detailed illustrative readings of known literary texts such as Stevensons Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Conrads Heart of Darkness, and now features a new chapter on Coetzees Elizabeth Costello and Slow Man. Approachable and stimulating, this is an essential introduction for anyone studying postmodernism, the theory of narrative or contemporary fiction--

Narration (Rhetoric) --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- Modernism (Literature) --- Post-postmodernism (Literature) --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric)

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From Michel Houellebecq to Zadie Smith, from Javier Marías to Arnon Grunberg: this timely study takes its reader on a tour of European literature and the critical discussion around it. Despite recent declarations of postmodernism's demise, contemporary literature turns out to be entangled in a discussion with postmodernism. It is time to critically evaluate this legacy. Twelve specialists in the national literatures sketch the outlines of the debate. Turning to literature itself, they find it to be searching for new values after the relativizing force of postmodernism.

Literature --- Europe --- Post-modernisme (Littérature) --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Postmodernisme (Literatuur) --- Postmodernisme (Littérature) --- 82.015.9 --- Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme --- European literature --- History and criticism. --- 82.015.9 Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme --- Postmodernism (Literature). --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- Modernism (Literature) --- Post-postmodernism (Literature) --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- History and criticism --- 20th century --- 21st century --- Postmodernism (Literature) - Europe --- Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism --- Literature, Modern - 21st century - History and criticism --- European literature - 20th century - History and criticism --- European literature - 21st century - History and criticism --- Postmodernisme et littérature

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Die Arbeit untersucht die Arbeiten namhafter Schriftsteller und Theoretiker der französischen und italienischen Gegenwartsliteratur v.a. aus den 80er und 90er Jahren. Im einzelnen handelt es sich um Texte von Julia Kristeva, Philippe Sollers, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Georges Perec, Italo Calvino und Roland Barthes. Die Paradoxie des Begriffs Postavantgarde erscheint dabei als grundlegend für Selbstreflexion und Selbstbeschreibung von Autoren, die lange Zeit als Vertreter avantgardistischer Gruppierungen wie Tel Quel, Nouveau Roman und Oulipo gegolten haben. Die Reflexion historischer Grenzen ahistorischer, formalistischer und selbstreferentieller Theoriebildung sowie der ihr zugeordneten narrativen Praxis, die Frage nach der Evolution literarischer Formen sind zentrale Bestandteile der Suche nach einem ästhetischen Programm. Wichtige literarische Schlagworte der letzten dreißig Jahre (u.a. Intertextualität) werden einer Revision unterzogen. Die poetologische Reflexion verläuft dabei zwischen den Extremen einer Rückkehr traditioneller Erzählformen und eines Formenpluralismus im Zeichen der Beliebigkeit; die Auseinandersetzung mit der Geschichtlichkeit der literarischen Form erweist sich als gemeinsamer Nenner und origineller Beitrag der (Selbst-)Beobachtung der Autoren. Dies schließt subjekttheoretische Überlegungen mit ein. Vor dem Hintergrund systemtheoretischer Überlegungen versucht die Arbeit die Gesamtbetrachtung einer wichtigen Epochenschwelle der Gegenwartsliteratur. Ihre Perspektive reicht vom "Nullpunkt der Literatur" (Barthes) bis zu den "Sechs Vorschlägen für das nächste Jahrtausend" (Calvino); die Untersuchung stellt die Frage nach Entwicklungspotentialen von Literatur in einem medialen Kontext, in dem ihr die avantgardistische Position nicht mehr zuzukommen scheint.

Perec, Georges, --- Robbe-Grillet, Alain, --- Kristeva, Julia --- Sollers, Philippe --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- French literature --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- Modernism (Literature) --- Post-postmodernism (Literature) --- Aesthetics --- Modernism (Art) --- History and criticism --- Calvino, Italo --- Criticism and interpretation. --- History and criticism. --- Criticism and interpretation --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics). --- French literature - 20th century - History and criticism. --- Calvino, Italo - Criticism and interpretation. --- Perec, Georges, - 1936-1982 - Criticism and interpretation. --- Robbe-Grillet, Alain, - 1922- - Criticism and interpretation --- Kristeva, Julia - Criticism and interpretation. --- Sollers, Philippe - Criticism and interpretation. --- Perec, Georges, - 1936-1982 --- Robbe-Grillet, Alain, - 1922 --- -Kristeva, Julia

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Historical fiction --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- History --- Historiography. --- Historiska romaner --- Postmodernism (litteratur) --- Historical fiction. --- Postmodernism (Literature). --- History and criticism. --- Philosophy. --- historia. --- Woolf, Virginia, --- Swift, Graham, --- Rushdie, Salman --- Spiegelman, Art --- Rushdie, Salman. --- Spiegelman, Art. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- analys och tolkning. --- Historical criticism --- Authorship --- History, Modern --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- Modernism (Literature) --- Post-postmodernism (Literature) --- Criticism --- Historiography --- Philosophy --- Rushdī, Salmān --- Rüşdı̂, Salman --- Ruždi, Salman --- Salamāna Raśdī --- Raśdī, Salamāna --- Рушди, Салман --- רושדי, סלמאן --- רושדי, סלמן --- رشدى، سلمان --- Anton, Joseph --- Svift, Grejem, --- Свифт, Грэм, --- סוויפט, גראהם, --- Woolf, Virginia Stephen, --- Stephen, Virginia, --- Ulf, Virzhinii︠a︡, --- Ṿolf, Ṿirg'inyah, --- Vulf, Virdzhinii︠a︡, --- Вулф, Вирджиния, --- וולף, וירג׳יניה --- וולף, וירג׳יניה, --- Stephen, Adeline Virginia, --- Postmodernism (litteratur). --- History and criticism --- Spiegelman, Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev --- Spiegelman, Arthur Isadore --- Woolf, Virginia --- Swift, Graham