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 ---------- Mark Broadhead 16/31 Burnett St St Kilda Victoria 3182 Australia --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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