Stories, Theories and Things

by Christine Brooke-Rose

Book Overview

The novelist and critic Christine Brooke-Rose reflects on her own fictional craft and turns her well-developed analytic abilities on other writers fictional and critical, from Hawthorne and Pound to Bloom and Derrida, in an attempt to investigate those difficult border zones between the invented and the real. The result is an extended meditation, in a highly personal idiom, on the creative act and its relation to modern theoretical writing and thinking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521391814
• ISBN13: 9780521391818
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.8"