Hermeneutic Desire and Critical Rewriting - Narrative Interpretation in the Wake of Poststructuralism (Hardcover)

Starting from a comprehensive examination of current post-structuralist and socio-semiotic theories of narrative, this book formulates an interactive model of literary interpretation and pedagogy emphasizing process, critical self-awareness and strategies of re-reading/re-writing. A literary pedagogy premised on the concept of "rewriting", the author argues, will enable readers to experience the process of narrative and critical construction creatively.;The earlier chapters explore the implications of recent theories (reader-oriented, deconstructive, feminist and socio-semiotic) that bank on an interactive, recreative paradigm of criticism. The latter part of the book argues the advantages of a literary pedagogy that encourages critical reformulation and a focus on the reader's own articulatory strategies, thereby bridging critical theory and practice, production and reception of texts. This theoretical and methodological argument is organized around a cluster of post-structuralist readings of Henry James and two experimental seminars that have all foregrounded, though from different angles, the essential affinity between James' narrative and critical practice, and a literary pedag

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 1991
First published:	1992
Authors:	M. Cornis-Pope
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	357
ISBN-13:	978-0-333-51474-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Promotions
LSN:	0-333-51474-2
Barcode:	9780333514740

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