Ridvan Askin

Narrative and Becoming (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

What is narrative? Ridvan Askin brings together aesthetics, contemporary North American fiction, Gilles Deleuze, narrative theory and the recent speculative turn to answer this question. Through this process, he develops a transcendental empiricist concept of narrative. Askin argues against the established consensus of narrative theory for an understanding of narrative as fundamentally nonhuman, unconscious and expressive. Close readings include: Ana Castillo, The Mixquiahuala Letters (1986); Michael Ondaatje, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (1970); Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist (1999); Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (2000).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474414579
• Artikelnr.: 50404149

Autorenporträt

Ridvan Askin is Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow in American and General Literatures at the University of Basel. His recent publications include two co-edited volumes, Aesthetics in the 21st Century, a special issue of Speculations (2014), and Literature, Ethics, Morality: American Studies Perspectives (Narr, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Differential Narratology
1. Intensive Narration: Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters
2. Narrating Sensation: Michael Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the
Kid
3. Sensational Realism: Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist
4. Real Folds: Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves
Conclusion: From the Becoming of Narrative to the Narrativity of Becoming
Works Cited
Index