Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/005649140/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 29 of
29
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract ""Michael Roemer's groundbreaking work argues that every story, be it ancient myth or documentary film, is completed before we read or watch it. He explores why a society like ours - predicated on free will - is addicted to tales that neither we, nor the heroes, can control." "Roemer argues that, contrary to both formalist and postmodern aesthetic theories, traditional stories do not create order out of chaos but challenge our order with chaos, undermining the structures we have built to protect ourselves. He finds that stories are both radical and conservative, invalidating our freedom while centering on heroes or heroines who are obliged to act alone; their adventures remove them from the sheltering community. Moreover, their attempt to escape the plot is mandated by the plot itself. Predicated on contradiction, ambiguity, and uncertainty, stories affirm what they deny - just as society both affirms and denies our existence as individuals."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b7958906.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description ""Michael Roemer's groundbreaking work argues that every story, be it ancient myth or documentary film, is completed before we read or watch it. He explores why a society like ours - predicated on free will - is addicted to tales that neither we, nor the heroes, can control." "Roemer argues that, contrary to both formalist and postmodern aesthetic theories, traditional stories do not create order out of chaos but challenge our order with chaos, undermining the structures we have built to protect ourselves. He finds that stories are both radical and conservative, invalidating our freedom while centering on heroes or heroines who are obliged to act alone; their adventures remove them from the sheltering community. Moreover, their attempt to escape the plot is mandated by the plot itself. Predicated on contradiction, ambiguity, and uncertainty, stories affirm what they deny - just as society both affirms and denies our existence as individuals."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Part one : Traditional story. The preclusive form of narrative -- Stories connect us -- Fictive figures must think they are free -- Plot -- Plot and necessity -- Plot and the sacred -- The desacralization of story -- Story and consciousness -- Story as paradox -- Story affirms what it denies -- Part two : Postmodernism and traditional narrative. We have always been positivists -- We don't and do believe in stories -- Postmodern theory and traditional art -- Deconstruction liberates and enables -- Invalidating traditional aesthetics -- Traditional story is on the right -- Invalidating the privileged realm -- The rejection of empathy -- The invalidation of experience -- Part three : Storytellers new and old. Popular stories -- Four storytellers and the enlightened tradition -- Henry James, postmodernist -- Part four : And now? The death of God -- Postmodernism and the death of man -- Envoy.".
- catalog extent "xi, 499 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Telling stories.".
- catalog identifier "084768041X (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0847680428 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Telling stories.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield,".
- catalog relation "Telling stories.".
- catalog subject "801/.95 20".
- catalog subject "Narration (Rhetoric) History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Narration (Technique)".
- catalog subject "PN56.P53 R64 1995".
- catalog subject "Postmodernism (Literature)".
- catalog subject "Storytelling.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part one : Traditional story. The preclusive form of narrative -- Stories connect us -- Fictive figures must think they are free -- Plot -- Plot and necessity -- Plot and the sacred -- The desacralization of story -- Story and consciousness -- Story as paradox -- Story affirms what it denies -- Part two : Postmodernism and traditional narrative. We have always been positivists -- We don't and do believe in stories -- Postmodern theory and traditional art -- Deconstruction liberates and enables -- Invalidating traditional aesthetics -- Traditional story is on the right -- Invalidating the privileged realm -- The rejection of empathy -- The invalidation of experience -- Part three : Storytellers new and old. Popular stories -- Four storytellers and the enlightened tradition -- Henry James, postmodernist -- Part four : And now? The death of God -- Postmodernism and the death of man -- Envoy.".
- catalog title "Telling stories : postmodernism and the invalidation of traditional narrative / Michael Roemer.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".