Literary Theory TodayPeter Collier, Helga Geyer-Ryan |
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... Narrative The first question that an historical approach to our subject seems to call for is , how can historical activities be viewed as constitutive of the uses of representation , including the uses of representational language ? As ...
... Narrative The first question that an historical approach to our subject seems to call for is , how can historical activities be viewed as constitutive of the uses of representation , including the uses of representational language ? As ...
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... narrative comes close to being a Zurücknahme , a revulsion from those classical fictions like Robinson Crusoe and Faust , where the link between appropriation and representativity was particularly strong , where the hero ( Robinson ...
... narrative comes close to being a Zurücknahme , a revulsion from those classical fictions like Robinson Crusoe and Faust , where the link between appropriation and representativity was particularly strong , where the hero ( Robinson ...
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... narrative of cultural plurality ; there the implausibility of conversation and commensurability ; there the enactment of an undecidable , uncanny colonial present , an Anglo - Indian difficulty , which repeats but is never itself fully ...
... narrative of cultural plurality ; there the implausibility of conversation and commensurability ; there the enactment of an undecidable , uncanny colonial present , an Anglo - Indian difficulty , which repeats but is never itself fully ...
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Beyond Postmodernism | 1 |
A Note on the Wartime Writings | 13 |
The Problem of Aesthetic Value | 23 |
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