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The narrative turn in fiction and theory : the crisis and return of storytelling from Robbe-Grillet to Tournier
- Title
- The narrative turn in fiction and theory : the crisis and return of storytelling from Robbe-Grillet to Tournier / Hanna Meretoja, University of Tampere and University of Turku, Finland.
- Author
- Meretoja, Hanna, 1977-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- ©2014
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- Description
- xviii, 282 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory relates the recent theoretical surge of interest in narrative to the revival of storytelling in fiction, particularly perceptible in France, where the preceding crisis of storytelling was exceptionally intense. It analyses the philosophical and historical underpinnings of the postwar crisis and return of storytelling, and shows how fiction explored ideas integral to the ongoing discussion of the significance of narrative for human existence, in advance of their theoretical articulation. While the nouveaux romanciers and postwar intellectuals believed that narratives violently impose order on the disorder of experience, the return of storytelling entails critical reflection on the ethical potential and dangers in our inevitable entanglement in cultural narratives. Hanna Meretoja contributes to contemporary narrative studies by developing a narrative hermeneutics which envisages storytelling as a process of reinterpreting experiences in a dialogical relation to cultural models of narrative sense-making. By bringing theory and fiction of the narrative turn into a dialogue, she proposes a framework for a historically sensitive study of the philosophical (ontological, epistemological, ethical, aesthetic) dimensions of different conceptions of narrative and suggests how to tie more intimately narrative theory to the study of narrative in literary history.--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- Palgrave studies in modern European literature
- Uniform Title
- Palgrave studies in modern European literature.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-266) and index.
- Call Number
- JFD 16-4116
- ISBN
- 9781137401052 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 1137401052 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 1137401060
- 9781137401069
- LCCN
- 2014022748
- 40024292372
- OCLC
- 881318372
- Author
- Meretoja, Hanna, 1977- author.
- Title
- The narrative turn in fiction and theory : the crisis and return of storytelling from Robbe-Grillet to Tournier / Hanna Meretoja, University of Tampere and University of Turku, Finland.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Copyright Date
- ©2014
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Palgrave studies in modern European literaturePalgrave studies in modern European literature.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-266) and index.
- Local Note
- AUTH: UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40024292372
- Research Call Number
- JFD 16-4116