1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450984503321

Autore

McHale Brian

Titolo

Postmodernist fiction / / Brian McHale

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Methuen, , 1987

ISBN

1-134-94917-0

1-280-02217-5

0-203-39332-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Disciplina

809

809.304

Soggetti

Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Postmodernism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; From modernist to postmodernist fiction: change of dominant; Some ontologies of fiction; In the zone; Worlds in collision; A world next door; Real, compared to what?; Worlds under erasure; Chinese-box worlds; Tropological worlds; Styled worlds; Worlds of discourse; Worlds on paper; Authors: dead and posthumous; Love and death in the post-modernist novel; Coda: the sense of Joyce's endings; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Like it or not, the term `postmodernism' seems to have lodged itself in our critical and theoretical discourses. We have a postmodern architecture, a postmodern dance, perhaps even a postmodern philosophy and a postmodern condition. But do we have a postmodernist fiction? In this trenchant and lively study Brian McHale undertakes to construct a version of postmodernist fiction which encompasses forms as wide-ranging as North American metafiction, Latin American magic realism, the French New New Novel, concrete prose and science fiction. Considering a variety of theoretical approaches including



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910301712803321

Titolo

Le charivari

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, 1841-1893

ISSN

2420-4404

Descrizione fisica

Online-Ressource

Classificazione

9,10

Disciplina

070

320

Soggetti

Zeitschrift

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910974617703321

Titolo

Autobiographical memory and the construction of a narrative self : developmental and cultural perspectives / / edited by Robyn Fivush, Catherine A. Haden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J., : L. Erlbaum, 2003

ISBN

1-135-65185-X

1-135-65186-8

1-138-00359-X

1-282-37443-5

9786612374432

1-4106-0747-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FivushRobyn

HadenCatherine A

Disciplina

153.1/3

Soggetti

Autobiographical memory - Social aspects

Self-presentation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: Autobiographical Memory, Narrative and Self; List of Contributors; I: The Development of Autobiographical Memory and Self-Understanding; Chapter 1 Narrative and Self, Myth and Memory: Emergence of the Cultural Self; Chapter 2 Social Origins of Reminiscing; Chapter 3 Joint Encoding and Joint Reminiscing: Implications for Young Children's Understanding and Remembering of Personal Experiences; II: Cross-Cultural Variation in Narrative Environments and Self-Construal

Chapter 4 Cultural Variations in Interdependence and Autobiographical Memory: Lessons from Korea, China, India, and the United StatesChapter 5 The Socialization of Autobiographical Memory in Children and Adults: The Roles of Culture and Gender; Chapter 6 On the Bilingual's Two Sets of Memories; III: The Construction of Gender and Identity Concepts in Developmental and Situational Contexts; Chapter 7 Creating Gender and Identity Through Autobiographical Narratives; Chapter 8 Telling Traumatic Events in Adolescence: A Study of Master Narrative Positioning; Chapter 9 Identity and the Life Story

Chapter 10 Self-Making NarrativesAuthor Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

It is a truism in psychology that self and autobiographical memory are linked, yet we still know surprisingly little about the nature of this relation. Scholars from multiple disciplines, including cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, and philosophy have begun theorizing and writing about the ways in which autobiographical memory is organized, the role that narratives play in the development of autobiographical memory, and the relations between autobiographical memory, narrative, and self concept. If narratives are a critical link between memory and self, then it becom