Circular Narratives In Modern European Literature

Author : Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501384880
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Circular Narratives in Modern European Literature written by Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking with linearity – the ruling narrative model in the Jewish-Christian tradition since the ancient world – many 20th-century European writers adopted circular narrative forms. Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez shows this trend was not a unified nor conscious movement, but rather a series of works arising sporadically in different countries at different times, using a variety of circular structures to express similar concerns and ideas about the world. This study also shows how the renewed understanding of narrative form leading to this circular trend was anticipated by Nietzsche's critiques of truth, knowledge, language and metaphysics, and especially by his related discussions of nihilism and the eternal recurrence. Starting with an analysis of the theory and genealogy of linear narrative, the author charts the emergence of Nietzsche's idea of eternal return, before then turning to the history of the circular narrative trend. This history is explored from its inception, in the works of August Strindberg, Gertrude Stein and Azorín; through its development in the interwar years, by writers such as Raymond Queneau and Vladimir Nabokov; to its full flowering in the work of authors James Joyce or Samuel Beckett, among others; and its later employment by post-war writers, including Alain Robbe-Grillet, Italo Calvino and Maurice Blanchot. Through a series of close readings, the book aims to highlight the various ways in which narrative circularity serves to break with an essentially teleological and theological thinking. Finally, Toribio Vazquez concludes by proposing a new typology of non-linear narratives, which builds on the work of recent narratologists.

Author : Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501384899
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Circular Narratives in Modern European Literature written by Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking with linearity – the ruling narrative model in the Jewish-Christian tradition since the ancient world – many 20th-century European writers adopted circular narrative forms. Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez shows this trend was not a unified nor conscious movement, but rather a series of works arising sporadically in different countries at different times, using a variety of circular structures to express similar concerns and ideas about the world. This study also shows how the renewed understanding of narrative form leading to this circular trend was anticipated by Nietzsche's critiques of truth, knowledge, language and metaphysics, and especially by his related discussions of nihilism and the eternal recurrence. Starting with an analysis of the theory and genealogy of linear narrative, the author charts the emergence of Nietzsche's idea of eternal return, before then turning to the history of the circular narrative trend. This history is explored from its inception, in the works of August Strindberg, Gertrude Stein and Azorín; through its development in the interwar years, by writers such as Raymond Queneau and Vladimir Nabokov; to its full flowering in the work of authors James Joyce or Samuel Beckett, among others; and its later employment by post-war writers, including Alain Robbe-Grillet, Italo Calvino and Maurice Blanchot. Through a series of close readings, the book aims to highlight the various ways in which narrative circularity serves to break with an essentially teleological and theological thinking. Finally, Toribio Vazquez concludes by proposing a new typology of non-linear narratives, which builds on the work of recent narratologists.

Author : H. Meretoja
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137401060
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory written by H. Meretoja and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory explores the philosophical and historical underpinnings of the postwar crisis and return of storytelling and shows their relevance for the ongoing debate on the significance of narrative for human existence.

Author : Ilya Kliger
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271037989
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Narrative Shape of Truth written by Ilya Kliger and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Draws on philosophical and novelistic texts from the Western European and Russian canons to explore a crucial moment in the epistemological history of narrative and present a nonreductive way of conjugating the histories of philosophy and the novel"--Provided by publisher.

Author : University of Chicago
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Circular of Information written by University of Chicago and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 982 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Douglas Angus
Publisher : Fawcett
ISBN 13 : 9780449300527
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Modern European Short Stories written by Douglas Angus and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1986-12-12 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five stories of twentieth-century Europe by some of the finest writers of the modern era, including Anton Chekhov, Joseph Conrad, Franz Kafka, James Joyce and Katherine Mansfield.

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Total Pages : 1454 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Author : Sylvia Angus
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0449912221
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Great Modern European Short Stories written by Sylvia Angus and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1996-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included in this brilliant collection are twenty-five stories of twentieth-century Europe by some of the greatest writers of the era. Unique in their range of insights, these pieces reflect the vast upheavals of their time, etching o fascinating and very thorough spiritual record of Europe's recent cultural evolution.