Real Mysteries (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
192
Utgivningsdatum
2016-06-01
Förlag
Ohio State University Press
Illustrationer
Illustrations, black and white
Dimensioner
229 x 152 x 11 mm
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291 g
Antal komponenter
1
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Paperback
ISBN
9780814252741

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Real Mysteries (häftad)

Real Mysteries

Narrative and the Unknowable

av H Porter Abbott
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The influential and widely respected narrative theorist, H. Porter Abbott, breaks new ground in Real Mysteries: Narrative and the Unknowable. In it, he revisits the ancient theme of what we cannot know about ourselves and others. But in a sharp departure, he shifts the focus from the representation of this theme to the ways narrative can be manipulated to immerse the willing reader in the actual experience of unknowing. As he shows, this difficult and risky art, which was practiced so inventively by Samuel Beckett, was also practiced by other modern writers. Abbott demonstrates their surprising diversity in texts by Beckett, Gabriel García Márquez, Herman Melville, Emily Brontë, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, J. M. Coetzee, Tim O'Brien, Kathryn Harrison, and Jeanette Winterson, together with supporting roles by J. G. Ballard, Gertrude Stein, Michael Haneke, Henry James, and Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.The demands of this art bear directly on key issues of narrative inquiry, including the nature and limits of reader-resistant texts, the function of permanent narrative gaps, the relation between experiencing a text and its interpretation, the fraught issue of aligning grammatical and narrative syntax, the mixed blessing of our mind-reading capability, and the ethics of reading. Despite its challenges, this book has been written with an eye to the general reader. In accessible language, Abbott shows how narrative fiction may create spaces in which our ignorance, when it is by its nature absolute, can be not only acknowledged but felt, and why this is important.H. Porter Abbott is professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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