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.

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

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Book Title: Narrative Bodies
Book Subtitle: Toward a Corporeal Narratology
Authors: Daniel Punday
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403981653
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6241-6Published: 20 August 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-52694-9Published: 20 August 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-8165-3Published: 13 June 2003
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 234
Topics: Literary Theory

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction Narrative’s Lost Body

Conceiving Modern Narrative

Sorted and General Character Bodies

Plot and the Unruly Body

The Body and Kinetic Space

Embodiment and Lightness in Narration

Conclusion Redefining Narrative

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