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Narrative Bodies
Daniel Punday
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Description for Narrative Bodies
Hardback. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 385.
Although the body has recently emerged throughout the humanities and social sciences as an object revealing the power and limits of representation, the study of narrative has almost entirely ignored human corporeality. As this book shows, attention to the body raises uncomfortable questions about the historicity of basic narrative concepts like character, plot, and narration - questions that critics would often prefer to ignore. Daniel Punday argues that narrative itself is a concept constructed by modern-day critics based on assumptions about identity, desire, movement and place that depend on modern ways of thinking about corporeality.
Although the body has recently emerged throughout the humanities and social sciences as an object revealing the power and limits of representation, the study of narrative has almost entirely ignored human corporeality. As this book shows, attention to the body raises uncomfortable questions about the historicity of basic narrative concepts like character, plot, and narration - questions that critics would often prefer to ignore. Daniel Punday argues that narrative itself is a concept constructed by modern-day critics based on assumptions about identity, desire, movement and place that depend on modern ways of thinking about corporeality.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403962416
SKU
V9781403962416
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About Daniel Punday
DANIEL PUNDAY is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University Calumet, and is the author of Narrative after Deconstruction.
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