A glance beyond doubt: narration, representation, subjectivity

by Rimmon-Kenan, Shlomith

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Title Statements

Full title :A glance beyond doubt : narration, representation, subjectivity / Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan.

Summary

Focusing on William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Vladimir Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Christine Brooke-Rose's Thru, Samuel Beckett's Company, and Toni Morrison's Beloved, Rimmon-Kenan shows how modes of narration participate in the exploration of the problematics of representation and subjectivity. Her insightful analyses of the narrative strategies of these five novels demonstrate her point that narration itself provides a special access to representation and subjectivity. In addition, these analyses offer a compelling example of what it means to claim that we can treat narrative as theory.

A Glance beyond Doubt thus provides an important methodological contribution to narrative studies while offering fresh and sophisticated readings of important modernist and postmodernist novels. Rimmon-Kenan's work is valuable for students of narrative and of twentieth-century literature, and it has important implications for other disciplines now studying narrative, especially philosophy, historiography, psychoanalysis, and jurisprudence.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1996.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Ohio State University Press
Place of Publication:Columbus
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1996.

The Physical Object

Description:xi, 160 pages ; : 22 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0814207065, 9780814207062, 0814207073, 9780814207079
oclc:ocm34472869
LC Classification:PN56.M536
Dewey Decimal:801/.95

Narration, representation, subjectivity -- William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! : "something is always missing" -- Vladimir Nabokov, The real life of Sebastian Knight : "the painting of different ways of painting" -- Christine Brooke-Rose, Thru : "whoever you invented invented you too" -- Samuel Beckett, Company : "devised deviser devising it all for company" -- Toni Morrison, Beloved : "it was not a story to pass on."

Subjects

Amerikaans Engels Letterkunde Mimêsis dans la littérature Mimesis in literature Narration Narration (Rhetoric) Subjectivité dans la littérature Subjectivity in literature Verteltheorie