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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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary theory

• Full title: Narrative Bodies
• Subtitle: Toward a Corporeal Narratology
• Author: Daniel Punday
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 234
• EAN: 9781403962416
• ISBN: 1403962413
• ID: 04776739
• Publisher: Palgrave USA
• Weight: 385 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. August 2003

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