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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
288
Utgivningsdatum
2003-03-01
Förlag
Wayne State University Press
Originalspråk
English
Illustrationer
Black & white illustrations
Dimensioner
240 x 159 x 25 mm
Vikt
658 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
1801:Standard B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Gray Cloth w/Jacket on White w/Matte Lam
ISBN
9780814329498

Cycles of Influence

Fiction, Folktale, Theory

av Stephen Benson
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2003-03-01
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In this wide ranging and insightful analysis, Stephen Benson proposes a poetic of narrative for postmodernism by placing new emphasis on the folktale. Postmodernist fictions have evidenced a return to narrative - to storytelling centred on a sequence of events, rather than a ""spiralling"" of events as found in modernism - and recent theorists have described narrative as a ""central insistence of the human mind"". By characterizing the folktale as a prime embodiment of narrative, Benson relates folktales to many of the theoretical concerns of postmodernism and provides new insights into the works of major writers who have used this genre, which includes the subgenre of the fairy tale, in opening narrative up to new possibilities. Benson examines the key features of folktales: their emphasis on a chain of events rather than description or consciousness, their emphasis on a self-contained fictional environment rather than realism, the presence of a storyteller as a self-confessed fabricator, their oral and communal status, and their ever-changing state, which defies authoritative versions. The arguments presented should not only interest folklorists and scholars of narrative but also readers in fields ranging from comparative literature to feminist theory.
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... all readers interested in fiction and narrative theory should read and learn from this book. Stephen Benson makes a compelling argument: that theories of fiction and folktales have been inextricably intertwined, at least since the early work of Vladimir Propp and the Prague School--Marvels & Tales Giving a decisive spin to the study of narrative in relation to theory and folktales, Benson has provided a carefully researched book that historicizes intertextuality and focuses on the story cycle to discuss structuralism, Arabian Nights, Angela Carter, Italo Calvino, feminist theory, and more. A must read for all scholars and teachers of narrative.--Cristina Bacchilega "University of Hawaii-Manoa " Stephen Benson's book establishes a challenging and convincing base in literary theory and folkloristics from which he explores a range of short stories fiction written since 1950. Concentrating on work by Italo Calvino, John Barth, and Robert Coover, together with developments of the Bluebeard" fairy tale, Benson offers shrewd insights into what he terms 'a sort of localized interdisciplinary literary history.' This is a work which excels in theoretical debate yet is never dogmatic, as it shows an impressive understanding of the intriguing problematics of interdisciplinary study.--Elizabeth Jaslen "Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies "

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Stephen Benson is a lecturer in the Department of English at Brunel University in the United Kingdom.

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