{"product_id":"stories-theories-and-things-hardback-9780521391818","title":"Stories, Theories and Things (Hardback) 9780521391818","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eStories, Theories and Things\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe novelist and critic Christine Brooke-Rose investigates those difficult border zones between the 'invented' and the 'real' in fiction.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChristine Brooke-Rose (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521391818, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 January 1991\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.3 x 14.6 x 2.4 cm, 0.506 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"What makes this an especially interesting miscellany is that it is about 'both literary theory and creativity,' offering the insights of a writer who is both a novelist and a critic....on the whole this work reveals the intelligence, erudition, and creativity of a remarkable novelist and critic.\"   Alice Kaminsky, International Studies in Philosophy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe novelist and critic Christine Brooke-Rose reflects on her own fictional craft and turns her well-developed analytic abilities on other writers fictional and critical, from Hawthorne to Pound to Bloom and Derrida, in an attempt to investigate those difficult border zones between the 'invented' and the 'real'. The result is an extended meditation in a highly personal idiom, on the creative act and its relation to modern theoretical writing and thinking. Like her fiction, Professor Brooke-Rose's criticism is self-consciously experimental, trying out and discarding ideas, adopting others. Her linguistic prowess, her uncommon role as a recognised writer of fiction and theory and the relevance of her work to the feminist and other other movements, all contribute to the interest of this unusual sequence of essays.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Theories as stories: 1. Stories, theories and things\u003cbr\u003e 2. Whatever happened to narratology?\u003cbr\u003e 3. Is is, is id?\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Stories and style: 4. A for but: Hawthorne's 'The Custom-House'\u003cbr\u003e 5. Ill locutions\u003cbr\u003e 6. Ill logics of irony\u003cbr\u003e 7. Ill wit and sick tragedy\u003cbr\u003e 8. Cheng Ming Chi'I'd\u003cbr\u003e 9. Notes on the metre of Auden's The Age of Anxiety\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Theories of stories: 10. Fiction, figment, feign\u003cbr\u003e 11. Which way did they go? Thataways\u003cbr\u003e 12. Palimpsest history\u003cbr\u003e 13. Illusions of parody\u003cbr\u003e 14. Illusions of anti-realism\u003cbr\u003e 15. A womb of one's own?\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Things?: 16. Woman as semiotic object\u003cbr\u003e 17. Illiterations\u003cbr\u003e 18. Ill wit and good humour\u003cbr\u003e 19. An allegory of aesthetics\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20theory%20%5BDSA%5D%22\"\u003eDSA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006019522840,"sku":"9780521391818","price":87.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521391818i_c2fb0700-c25c-405b-a5b7-05c0e863fe64.jpg?v=1691376279","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/stories-theories-and-things-hardback-9780521391818","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}