Narrative and Culture

Janice Carlisle, Daniel R. Schwarz

University of Georgia Press, Aug 1, 2010 - Literary Criticism - 288 pages

Narrative and Culture draws together fourteen essays in which leading scholars discuss narrative texts and practices in a variety of media and genres, subjecting them to sustained cultural analysis. The essays cross national borders and historical periods as often and as easily as they traverse disciplinary boundaries, and they examine canonical fiction as well as postmodern media—photography, film, television. The primary subject of these pieces, notes Janice Carlisle, is “the relation between the telling of tales and the engagement of their tellers and listeners in the practices of specific societies.”

Contributors: Nina Auerbach, Thomas B. Byers, Jay Clayton, Marcel Cornis-Pope, Mary Lou Emery, Colleen Kennedy, Vera Mark, Caroline McCracken-Flesher, Paul Morrison, Ingeborg Majer O'Sickey, John Carlos Rowe, Daniel R. Schwarz, Carol Siegel, Felipe Smith

Contents

• Part One The Culture of the Canon: 13
• The Cultural Text: 36
• Colleen Kennedy The White Mans Guest or Why Arent More: 46
• Jay Clayton The Narrative Turn in Minority Fiction: 58
• Reclamations: 77
• Part Two The Narrative: 95
• Ingeborg Majer OSickey The Narratives of Desire in Wim Wenderss: 143
• Narrative in the Plague Years: 160
• The Strange: 179
• Primitivism and the Modern: 200
• Intertextualities in the Moncrabeau: 250
• Contributors: 271

About the author

Janice Carlisle is a professor of English at Yale University. She is the author or editor of numerous books including Common Scents: Comparative Encounters in High-Victorian Fiction and a critical edition of Great Expectations. Daniel R. Schwarz is the Frederic J. Whiton Professor of English Literature and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University. He is the editor of several works and is the author of fourteen books including Reading Joyce's Ulysses, Imagining the Holocaust, and the recent In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-first Century.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Narrative and Culture
• Editors: Janice Carlisle, Daniel R. Schwarz
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 2010
• ISBN: 0820337919, 9780820337913
• Length: 288 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / American / General; Literary Criticism / European / General; Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory