Stories, Theories and Things
            
            ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Brooke-Rose, Christine / Brooke-Rose, Christine / Christine, Brooke-Rose, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, ong>Theong> novelist ong>andong> critic Christine Brooke-Rose reflects on her own fictional craft ong>andong> turns her well-developed analytic abilities on oong>theong>r writers fictional ong>andong> critical, from Hawthorne ong>andong> Pound to Bloom ong>andong> Derrida, in an attempt to investiong>gateong> those difficult border zones between ong>theong> "invented" ong>andong> ong>theong> "real." ong>Theong> result is an extended meditation, in a highly personal idiom, on ong>theong> creative act ong>andong> its relation to modern ong>theong>oretical writing ong>andong> thinking. Like her fiction, Prong>ofong>essor Brooke-Rose's criticism is self-consciously experimental, trying out ong>andong> discarding ideas, adopting oong>theong>rs. Her linguistic prowess, her uncommon role as a recognized writer ong>ofong> fiction ong>andong> ong>theong>ory, ong>andong> ong>theong> relevance ong>ofong> her work to ong>theong> feminist ong>andong> oong>theong>r modern movements, all contribute to ong>theong> interest ong>ofong> this unusual sequence ong>ofong> essays. Christine Brooke-Rose, formerly a prong>ofong>essor at ong>theong> Universite de Paris, ong>andong> now retired, lives in France. She is ong>theong> author ong>ofong> several works ong>ofong> literary criticism ong>andong> a number ong>ofong> novels, including Amalgamemnon ong>andong> Xorong>andong>er.