Research Catalog

Title

On stories / Richard Kearney.

Author

Kearney, Richard

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

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Details

Description

xii, 193 p. : ill.; 20 cm.

Summary

Drawing on the work of James Joyce, the story of Sigmund Freud's patient Dora and the case of Oscar Schindler, Richard Kearney skillfully illuminates how stories are deep at work in fictional writing, autobiography and psychoanalysis and above all, in attempts to talk of the "self." He also considers the stories of nations and how these affect the way a national identity can emerge from stories. He looks at the stories of Romulus and Remus in the founding of Rome, the hidden agenda of stories in the antagonism between Britain and Ireland, and how stories of alienation in film such as Aliens and Men in Black reveal often disturbing narratives at work in projections of North American national identity.

Series Statement

Thinking in action

Uniform Title

Thinking in action.

Subject

• Prose literature > History and criticism
• Narration (Rhetoric)

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-190) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1. Where do Stories Come From? 1. Where do Stories Come From? -- pt. 2. Three Case Histories: Daedalus, Dora, Schindler. 2. From History to Story: The Case of Stephen Daedalus. 3. Whose Story is it Anyway? The Case of Dora. 4. Testifying to History: The Case of Schindler. 5. The Paradox of Testimony -- pt. 3. National Narratives: Rome, Britain, America. 6. Introduction. 7. Roman Foundation Myths: Aeneas and Romulus. 8. Britain and Ireland: A Tale of Siamese Twins. 9. America and its 'Others': Frontier Stories. 10. Conclusion: Border Crossings -- pt. 4. Narrative Matters. 11. Narrative Matters.

ISBN

• 0415247977
• 0415247985 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2001031753

OCLC

• 123149993
• SCSB-10261393

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library