Narrative and Becoming
Ridvan Askin
Abstract
What is narrative? Ridvan Askin answers this question by bringing together aesthetics, contemporary North American fiction, Gilles Deleuze, narrative theory and the recent speculative turn. Through this process he develops a transcendental empiricist concept of narrative. Against the established consensus of narrative theory he argues for an understanding of narrative as fundamentally nonhuman, unconscious and expressive. Narrative and Becoming provides close readings of a number of contemporary North American fictions, most prominently Ana Castillo’s The Mixquiahuala Letters (1986), Michael ... More
Keywords: aesthetics, contemporary fiction, Deleuze, metaphysics, narrative theory, nonhuman, speculative turn
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9781474414562 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: May 2017 | DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474414562.001.0001 |
