Narrative Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Narratology

Punday, D.

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.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2003-08-20

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349526949

DOI: 10.1057/9781403981653

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 234