Author: Newman, Robert; editor:
Title: Centuries' Ends, Narrative Means
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1996. orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xi, 387 pp. Minor rubbing. Some page-edge soil. VG. ¶ Contains 16 papers. Includes: S. Bercovitch "Games of Chess: A Model of Literary & Cultural Studies"; H. White "Storytelling: Historical & Ideological"; J.-F. Lyotard "Being Done with Narrative by Cubism and André Malraux"; S. Stewart "Traherne's Centuries"; B. Thomas "Turner's 'Frontier Thesis' as a Narrative of Reconstruction"; J. Knapp "Rogue Nationalism"; M.Norris "The (Lethal) Turn of the Twentieth Century: War & Population Control"; A. Behdad "Border INSpection: Reflections on Crossing the U.S. Border"; S.D. Arata "Strange Cases, Common Fates: Degeneration & the Pleasures of Professional Reading"; S. Mizruchi "Neighbors, Strangers, Corpses: Death & Sympathy in the Early Writings of W.E.B. Du Bois"; D. McWhirter "What's Awkward About 'the Awkward Age'?"; R. Felski "Fin de Siè cle, Fin de Sexe: Transsexuality, Postmodernism, & the Death of History"; S. Mullaney "Mourning &Misogyny: Hamlet, The Revenger's Tragedy, & the Final Progress of Elizabeth I, 1600-16097"; K. Acker "Once Upon a Time, Not Long Ago, O"; T. Foster "'The Sex Appeal of the Inorganic': Posthuman Narratives & the Construction of Desire"; J. Wicke "Fin de Siècle & the Technological Sublime".

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Critical, Literature Theory, Narrative, , , , ,