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Title: TELLING STORIES
POSTMODERNISM, FREE WILL AND THE INVALIDATION OF NARRATIVE
By: Michael Roemer
Format: Hardback

List price: £45.00


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ISBN 10: 084768041X
ISBN 13: 9780847680412
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
Pub. date: 1 August, 1995
Pages: 386
Description: Asks important questions about the very nature of stories and examines why we read stories rather than just learning the endings.
Synopsis: Michael Roemer's groundbreaking work argues that every story, be it ancient myth or documentary film, is completed before we read or watch it. He explores why a society like ours - predicated on free will - is addicted to tales that neither we, nor the heroes, can control. Roemer argues that, contrary to both formalist and postmodern aesthetic theories, traditional stories do not create order out of chaos but challenge our order with chaos, undermining the structures we have built to protect ourselves. He finds that stories are both radical and conservative, invalidating our freedom while centering on heroes or heroines who are obliged to act alone; their adventures remove them from the sheltering community. Moreover, their attempt to escape the plot is mandated by the plot itself. Predicated on contradiction, ambiguity, and uncertainty, stories affirm what they deny - just as society both affirms and denies our existence as individuals.
Publication: US
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Returns: Returnable
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