Memorious Discourse: Reprise and Representation in PostmodernismFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005 - 282 páginas This book zeroes in on postmodern representation, which the author defines (with a wink at Borges's Funes the Memorious) as memorious discourse. This wide-ranging discussion of contemporary writers and theorists from Nabokov and DeLillo to Levinas and Derrida argues that postmodern representation remembers and recycles former representations, and draws a picture that latches onto other pictures to bring its object to life. Memorious Discourse identifies five areas in recent theory and fiction where the problems of postmodern representation come to light forcefully: the postmodern memoir and personal literature broadly, the use of names, the posthuman, the issue of reality and the complex bearings of postmodern ontology and the sublime's revival. Christian Moraru is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. |
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... true memoir , and somebody else's disguised memoir to that , in spite of the literary appropriations the book performs . What haunts it is Tituba's own , posthumous voice . The novel is the theater of her return , a " Chemi- cal Theatre ...
... true memoir , and somebody else's disguised memoir to that , in spite of the literary appropriations the book performs . What haunts it is Tituba's own , posthumous voice . The novel is the theater of her return , a " Chemi- cal Theatre ...
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... true name , " Ratner himself ventures , is always an illusion prompting further " substitution , abbreviation , blank spaces , utter silence " ( 221 ) . We speak the name , and as we do so , we go through infinite layers of ...
... true name , " Ratner himself ventures , is always an illusion prompting further " substitution , abbreviation , blank spaces , utter silence " ( 221 ) . We speak the name , and as we do so , we go through infinite layers of ...
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... true and untrue , real and un- real . This particular distinction disintegrates once artists knock up against the impossibility to achieve “ true ” representations , to be “ truthful . ” When this happens , we are left with peu de ...
... true and untrue , real and un- real . This particular distinction disintegrates once artists knock up against the impossibility to achieve “ true ” representations , to be “ truthful . ” When this happens , we are left with peu de ...
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Preface | 9 |
Postmodern Representation Cultural Politics | 15 |
Time Representation and Postmodern Memory | 40 |
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