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Wiese, Annjeanette.

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Narrative understanding: The staging of form and theory in contemporary fiction.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Narrative understanding: The staging of form and theory in contemporary fiction./
Author:	Wiese, Annjeanette.
Description:	284 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Eric White.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-04A.
Subject:	Literature, American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3303856
ISBN:	9780549508380

Narrative understanding: The staging of form and theory in contemporary fiction.
Wiese, Annjeanette.

Narrative understanding: The staging of form and theory in contemporary fiction. - 284 p.

Adviser: Eric White.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Colorado at Boulder, 2008.

In the past several decades, we have witnessed a proliferation of theories about the postmodern condition, and it has become increasingly apparent that one dominant characteristic of these theories is a preoccupation with narrative. It is therefore not surprising that theorists and fiction writers alike have turned to narrative theory to interpret cultural postmodernity in general, even if much of that culture produces new modes of perceiving that contradict traditions of narrative form. It is my contention that the conditions that result from this critical and theoretical interconnectedness have fueled the manipulations at play in recent fiction, in which authors stage conventions in order to parse the ways form can shape experience and perception. What is therefore at issue here is fiction's representation of how narrative structures and gives meaning to experience and what the consequences of this are in relation to the rest of the postmodern condition. In my first chapter I examine the implications of how narratology has defined narrative in ways that have generated the staging of narrative as a concept and as a set of formal conventions in fiction. My second chapter explores the conditions of postmodernity that make us particularly susceptible to and self-conscious of the inclination toward narrative form in how we make sense of our world. In chapters three through seven, I analyze a selection of exemplary novels that not only present conceptually but also enact formally their positions on narrative as a problematic issue in contemporary culture. In each of these chapters, I will emphasize thematics such as history, technology, identity, and the representation of reality, all of which function in relation to the staging of narrative in varying ways. My selection of novels includes Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow, Television by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, White Noise by Don DeLillo, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter, Pinocchio in Venice by Robert Coover, and The Notebook, The Proof, and The Third Lie by Agota Kristof.

ISBN: 9780549508380Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017657
Literature, American.

Narrative understanding: The staging of form and theory in contemporary fiction.
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