Narrative after Deconstruction

Contents

Preface, vii chapter one THE NARRATIVE TURN, 1 Deconstruction and Narrative, 1 Narrative Totality and Narrative Openness, 4 Recent Theories of Materiality, 13 chapter two DECONSTRUCTION AND THE WORLDLY TEXT, 21 Localizing Deconstruction, 21 Rethinking Deconstructive Space, 23 Producing Space in the Worldly Text, 27 The Multiple Spaces of Post-Deconstructive Narrative, 36 Derrida after Deconstruction, 43 chapter three THE SEARCH FOR FORM IN AMERICAN POSTMODERN FICTION, 48 Problems in the Poetics of Postmodern Fiction, 48 Defining Form in Postmodern Fiction, 50 Negotiating Materiality in Postmodern Fiction, 58 chapter four A GENERAL OR LIMITED NARRATIVE THEORY? 69 Universal Narrative Forms? 69 Revising Spatial Form, 70 The Feel of Multiple Spaces, 82 contents . chapter five RESISTING POST-DECONSTRUCTIVE SPACE, 87 Space and Commodity Culture, 87 Jameson’s Resistance to Postmodern Space, 89 The Open Landscape, 97 chapter six READING TIME, 107 Temporality in the Worldly Text, 107 Theories of Reading Process, 108 A Poetics of the Hesitating Text, 117 One and Several Sites, 128 chapter seven STRUGGLING WITH OBJECTS, 132 Respect for the Concrete, 132 Problems of the Antihegemonic Concrete, 133 Describing Whole Objects, 139 chapter eight NARRATIVE AND POST-DECONSTRUCTIVE ETHICS, 153 Ethics after Deconstruction, 153 The Ruins of the Other, 163 Conclusions, 171 Notes, 172 Works Cited, 180 Index, 191 vi . Contents ...