10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANTISTORY»
Discover the use of
antistory in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
antistory and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Coyote Country: Fictions of the Canadian West
Similarly and by the same logic, was there no father either, which would turn
Dawe's "antistory" into Anna's anti-antistory. In short, the breakthrough to antistory
and its attendant freedom that Lecker praises in the novel proves to be mostly ...
Face me and protect me. Son, the whale has no face. Son, we whales have no
face. The impulse to antistory breaks out early in M-D, in the meditative moments
of the first chapter, when Ishmael speaks of "the undeliverable, nameless perils of
...
3
Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film
If the classical narrative is a network (or "enchainment") of kernels affording
avenues of choice only one of which is possible, the antistory may be defined as
an attack on this convention which treats all choices as equally valid. Jorge Luis ...
Seymour Benjamin Chatman, 1980
Both novels demonstrate Kroetsch's increasing attraction to antistory as a form of
freedom. To the question of what is true freedom, one paradoxical answer is this:
true freedom means not telling the story. But Kroetsch cannot authentically ...
5
The Interaction of Complexity and Management
Reinforcing a value or achieving a change or modification of a rule is possible
without antistory. Small incremental changes work; the catastrophic changes that
are occasionally necessary are more unpredictable in their outcome and more ...
6
Dive Deeper: Journeys with Moby-Dick
Moby—Dick is an “Antistory," a vehicle for Melville's torrents of creativity. The truth
is not in the narrative, as such, but in the riffs. It is a monument to “the joy of the
analogical leap itself.” It is about Melville's art, his upholding of “The mortal yes of
...
7
9-11 in American Culture
It is also a powerful antistory about the forceful interruption of someone else's
peaceful storyline, someone else's plan for their life. The instrument of this
interruption has always been an act of unspeakable violence, whether the
weapon of ...
Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln, 2003
8
Frank Lentricchia: Essays on His Works
Accordingly, he believes Melville is most powerful when he lets himself succumb
to the essayistic impulse, “the impulse to antistory:” “In the essay, the story-dead
form of the essay; in hundreds of pages of nonfiction Melville's fluent genius finds
...
9
Music Speaks: On the Language of Opera, Dance, and Song
the antistory concerns the attempt of speech melody to disengage itself from any
finite act of communication. One of the heroes of the first story is another Czech
composer, Alois Hába, who in the 1920s developed a microtonal system of music
...
10
Communication as Organizing: Empirical and Theoretical ...
For every story (and every interpretation) there is an antistory, not just another
story. The antistory is the obverse of whatever story is in the figurative foreground.
It is the ground that lends the figure of the story in focus its meaning potential.
Francois Cooren, Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Francois Cooren, James R. Taylor, 2013
