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