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Article: Telling Stories: Postmodernism and the Invalidation of Traditional Narrative.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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Telling Stories: Postmodernism and the Invalidation of Traditional Narrative. By MICHAEL ROEMER. Lanham, MD, and London: Rowman & Littlefield. 1995. 499 pp. $39.95 (paperbound $22.95).
This is the sort of book that causes a reviewer a good deal of anguish. Obviously the product of serious reflection, wide reading, and impressive erudition, it is still more than a little disappointing. As a result, one is hard put to do it justice. It is a ragbag of sophisticated, perceptive, and pseudo-profound observations regarding narrative, its various social and pychological functions, the role of communities, the human condition, and life itself. To give an idea of the more ...