Keeping Ourselves Alive
A Special Issue of the journal of Narrative and Life History
Published on 1. January 1993
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-8058-9995-5 (ISBN)
Description
This special issue is a compilation of essays -- expanded from papers given at the International Conference on Narrative held at Vanderbilt University -- illustrating the rich possibilities of contemporary narrative study. These essays collectively share the conviction that reading narratives is a dynamic rather than static experience, one in which meaning becomes created in the interaction of language and silence, reader and text, in a constant series of negotiations. In this sense, the creation of narrative is a continuous, living process.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Mahwah
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-8058-9995-5 (9780805899955)
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Content
Volume 3, Numbers 2 & 3, 1993. Contents: N.A. Walker, Introduction: Keeping Ourselves Alive. S. Teahan, The Rhetoric of Consciousness in Henry James. M. Scanlan, Mistaken Identities: First-Person Narration in Kazuo Ishiguro. J.M. Downes, "Streght to My Matere": Rereading Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. R.C. Hoogland, (Sub)textual Configurations: Sexual Ambivalences in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. R.A. Sheets, "The Farcical History of Richard Greenow": Aldous Huxley and the Anxieties of Male Authorship. C. Dale, The Housewife's Tale: Maternal Poetics in Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding. J.S. Murphy, "Words Like Bones": Narrative, Performance, and the Reinscribing of Violence in Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller. E. van Alphen, Salomon's Work. J.S. Frye, Tillie Olson: Probing the Boundaries Between Text and Context. M. Reid, Narrative Silence in America's Stories. T. Logan, Victorian Treasure Houses: The Novel and the Parlor. J.C. Eldred, Figuring Culture and Literacy in Willa Cather's "Paul's Case.".