Circular Narratives in Modern European Literature

Released on by Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez
preview-18

  • Circular Narratives in Modern European Literature Book Detail

  • Author : Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez
  • Release Date : 2022-06-16
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 241
  • ISBN 13 : 1501384880
  • File Size : 47,47 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Circular Narratives in Modern European Literature by Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez PDF Summary

Book Description: Breaking with linearity – the ruling narrative model in the Jewish-Christian tradition since the ancient world – many 20th-century European writers adopted circular narrative forms. Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez shows this trend was not a unified nor conscious movement, but rather a series of works arising sporadically in different countries at different times, using a variety of circular structures to express similar concerns and ideas about the world. This study also shows how the renewed understanding of narrative form leading to this circular trend was anticipated by Nietzsche's critiques of truth, knowledge, language and metaphysics, and especially by his related discussions of nihilism and the eternal recurrence. Starting with an analysis of the theory and genealogy of linear narrative, the author charts the emergence of Nietzsche's idea of eternal return, before then turning to the history of the circular narrative trend. This history is explored from its inception, in the works of August Strindberg, Gertrude Stein and Azorín; through its development in the interwar years, by writers such as Raymond Queneau and Vladimir Nabokov; to its full flowering in the work of authors James Joyce or Samuel Beckett, among others; and its later employment by post-war writers, including Alain Robbe-Grillet, Italo Calvino and Maurice Blanchot. Through a series of close readings, the book aims to highlight the various ways in which narrative circularity serves to break with an essentially teleological and theological thinking. Finally, Toribio Vazquez concludes by proposing a new typology of non-linear narratives, which builds on the work of recent narratologists.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Circular Narratives in Modern European Literature books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

From Kafka to Sebald

From Kafka to Sebald

File Size : 24,24 MB
Total View : 1875 Views
DOWNLOAD

This volume is a response to a renewed interest in narrative form in contemporary literary studies, taking up the question of literary narratives and their enco