184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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Relating Narratives is a major new work by the philosopher and feminist thinker Adriana Cavarero. First published in Italian to widespread acclaim, Relating Narratives is a fascinating and challenging new account of the relationship between selfhood and narration. Drawing a diverse array of thinkers from both the philosophical and the literary tradition, from Sophocles and Homer to Hannah... Read more
A Stork for an Introduction; Part I Heroes; Chapter 1 The Story of Oedipus; Chapter 2 The Paradox of Ulysses; Chapter 3 The Desire For One's Story; Part II Women; Chapter 4 Oedipus Errs Twice; Chapter 5 On the Outskirts of Milan; Chapter 6 In a New York Bookstore; Part III Lovers; Chapter 7 The Necessary Other; Chapter 8 Orpheus the Poet; Chapter 9 The Voice of Eurydice; Chapter 10 Eros and Narration; Part IV Narrators; Chapter 11 Scheherazade Trapped in the Text; Chapter 12 Karen Blixen, or the Classic Rule of Storytelling; Chapter 13 The World is Full of Stories Just Waiting to be Told;
Biography
Adriana Cavarero
'This is an important book, not least for the fruitful ways in which it brings two dominant modes of cognition in the West, philosophy and narrative, face to face with each other. And perhaps even more important for its joyous and antinomian rejection of what narrative has brought us, in interiority and all its burdens.' - Radical Philosophy
