NARRATIVE THEORY

Critical Concepts in Literary

and Cultural Studies

Edited by
Mieke Bal

Volume III

Political Narratology

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VOLUME III POLITICAL NARRATOLOGY

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction to Volume III 1

PART 1
Involvement/rhetoric 9

36 Emile Benveniste 11
KAJA S1LVERMAN

37 The establishment of internal focalization in odd pronominal contexts 20

MONIKA FLUDERNIK

38 Narrative transmission, readers' scripts, and illocutionary acts 33

MICHAEL KEARNS

PART 2
Where is the political? 67

39 Consolidated vision: narrative and social space 69

EDWARD SAID

40 The storyteller: reflections of the works of Nikolai Leskov 88

WALTER BENJAMIN

41 Symptoms of discursivity: experience, memory and trauma 107

ERNST VAN ALPHEN
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42 Sexing narratology: toward a gendered poetics of narrative voice 123

SUSAN S. LANSER

43 The politics of translation 140

GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK.

44 Realism and desire: Balzac and the problem of the subject 162
FREDERIC JAMESON

PART 3
Understanding ideology 189

45 Text and ideology: for a poetics of the norm 191

PHILIPPE HAMON

46 Writing history with the Sun King: the traps of narrative 219
LOUIS MARIN

47 I etcetera: on the poetics and ideology of multipersoned narratives 242

BRIAN RICHARDSON

PART 4
The politics of desire 259

48 Freud's masterplot 261

PETER BROOKS

49 Coming unstrung: women, men, narrative, and principles of pleasure 276

SUSAN WINNETT

50 'Significant discharge': the cum shot and narrativity 297

MURAT AYDEMIR

51 Ideology, form, and 'Allerleirauh': reflections on Reading for

the Plot 319
MARIANNE HIRSCH

PART 5
Time 325

52 Narrative time 327

PAUL RICOEUR

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53 Time, narration, and the exploration of central Africa 348

JOHANNES FABIAN

54 The staging of time in Heremakhonon 367

GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK

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