File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1998/phillitcrit.9810, message 32


Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:52:22 +1100
From: mark <mbro3-AT-student.monash.edu.au>
Subject: Re: PLC:



> On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Stacey Maxine Armstrong wrote:
> 
> > i am putting together an application for a sshrc grant concerning the use
> > of time as a metaphor. Does anyone know of any texts which attempt to move
> > outside a teological narrative/progressionist time schema? i am interested
> > in catastrophe fiction,
> > time travel............
> > stacey
> 

How about Don DeLillo. My first thought was White Noise, which deals 
with catastrophe, but Ratner's Star also does similar things with 
time.

 
>The Beckett stuff does not so much move outside the teleological 
narrative
> progression as problematize it in ways which make it cease 
to function > adequately or at least in a trustworthy fashion. 
> E.g., in Malone dies, the main character of the second part of the novel
> appears to become the vagabond presented in the first part.

actually this is Molloy/Moran in _Molloy_. 
Mark Broadhead

  


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