Narrative and Culture

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Review Quotes: "This wonderful collection is an attempt to explore the meanings of narrative and culture. The editors recognize that these abstract nouns are suspect, mysterious, devious."--"Review of Contemporary Fiction"Biographical Note: Janice Carlisle is a professor of English at Yale University. She is the author or editor of numerous books including "Common Scents: Comparative Encounters in High-Victorian Fiction" and a critical edition of "Great Expectations." Daniel R. Schwarz is the Frederic J. Whiton Professor of English Literature and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University. He is the editor of several works and is the author of fourteen books including "Reading Joyce's Ulysses, Imagining the Holocaust, " and the recent "In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-first Century."Publisher Marketing: Narrative and Culture draws together fourteen essays in which leading scholars discuss narrative texts and practices in a variety of media and genres, subjecting them to sustained cultural analysis. The essays cross national borders and historical periods as often and as easily as they traverse disciplinary boundaries, and they examine canonical fiction as well as postmodern media--photography, film, television. The primary subject of these pieces, notes Janice Carlisle, is the relation between the telling of tales and the engagement of their tellers and listeners in the practices of specific societies. Contributors: Nina Auerbach, Thomas B. Byers, Jay Clayton, Marcel Cornis-Pope, Mary Lou Emery, Colleen Kennedy, Vera Mark, Caroline McCracken-Flesher, Paul Morrison, Ingeborg Majer O'Sickey, John Carlos Rowe, Daniel R. Schwarz, Carol Siegel, Felipe Smith

Contributor Bio:  Carlisle, Janice Janice Carlisle is Professor of English at Yale University and has published on a wide variety of Victorian subjects, including essays on the autobiographical novels of Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot, as well as books on the ethical implications of Victorian fiction. More recently she has written on the culture of Britain in the 1860s, publishing a book on the sensory registers of novels written at that time (Common Scents: Comparative Encounters in High-Victorian Fiction, 2004). Contributor Bio:  Schwarz, Daniel R Daniel R. Schwarz is Professor of English and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University, where he has won major teaching prizes. He is the author of the recently published "Broadway Boogie Woogie" (2003) and the widely read "Imagining the Holocaust" (1999; rev. edn 2000). His many previous publications include "Rereading Conrad" (2001), "Reconfiguring Modernism" (1997), "The Transformation of the English Novel, 1890--1930" (1989; rev. edn 1995), and "Reading Joyce's "Ulysses"" (1987; Centenary edn 2004).