Narrative Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Narratology

Although the body has recently emerged throughout the humanities and social sciences as an object revealing the power and limits of representation, the study of narrative has almost entirely ignored human corporeality. As this book shows, attention to the body raises uncomfortable questions about the historicity of basic narrative concepts like character, plot, and narration - questions that critics would often prefer to ignore. Daniel Punday argues that narrative itself is a concept constructed by modern-day critics based on assumptions about identity, desire, movement and place that depend on modern ways of thinking about corporeality.

Author: D. Punday
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 08/20/2003
Pages: 234
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9781349526949

About the Author
DANIEL PUNDAY is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University Calumet, and is the author of Narrative after Deconstruction.