Centuries' ends, narrative means
This work uses the approaching conclusion of the second millennium as a context for discussing questions concerning temporal division and narrative continuity. It explores the ways in which the ending of centuries affects the creation and production of cultural texts.
Print Book, English, 1996
Stanford University Press, Stanford (Calif.), 1996
XI, 387 p. 23 cm
9780804726498, 0804726493
1014630306
Contributors; Introduction Robert Newman; Part I. Stories of History and Narrative: 1. Games of Chess: A Model of Literary and Cultural Studies Sacvan Bercovitch; 2. Storytelling: historical and ideological Hayden White; 3. Being done with narrative by cubism and Andre Malraux Jean-Francois Lyotard; 4. Traherne's centuries Susan Stewart; Part II. Projections of Nationalism: 5. Turner's 'Frontier Thesis' as a narrative of reconstruction Brook Thomas; 6. Rogue nationalism Jeffrey Knapp; 7. The (lethal) turn of the twentieth century: war and population control Margot Norris; 8. Border INspection: reflections on crossing the U.S. border Ali Behdad; Part III. Fin de Siecle Fates, Mournings, and In-Betweens: 9. Strange cases, common fates: degeneration and the pleasures of professional reading Stephen D. Arata; 10. Neighbors, strangers, corpses: death and sympathy in the early writings of W. E. B. Du Bois - Susan Mizruchi; 11. What's awkward about The Awkward Age? David McWhirter; Part IV. Narrative Embodiment: Gender and Desire in History: 12. Fin de Siecle, Fin de Sexe: transsexuality, postmodernism, and the death of history Rita Felski; 13. Mourning and misogyny: Hamlet, the revenger's tragedy, and the final progress of Elizabeth I, 1600-1607 Steven Mullaney; 14. Once upon a time, not long ago, O Kathy Acker; 14. 'The sex appeal of the inorganic': posthuman narratives and the construction of desire Thomas Foster; 15. Fin de Siecle and the technological sublime Jennifer Wicke; Notes; Index.