There is questioning of the authority of the narrator and the truth-value of the narration starting with at least Defoe. The exploration of these issues produces richer and more radical narratives: Conrad and Woolf being the greatest examples. But this is not the same thing as the rejection of narrative, which is a whole other kettle of fish and has little that is liberatory about it.
Joanna
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Claxton" <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org, lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 3:00:16 AM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Imperial Chickens Come Home to Roost
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>I don't buy it.
You don't buy what? Art history?
>Why was it all of a sudden tyrannical?
What all of a sudden? We're talking centuries of development here.
>
>Joanna
>
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>From: "Dennis Claxton" <ddclaxton at earthlink.net>
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>Joanna wrote:
>
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>>And the million dollar question for me is why
>>the hatred/destruction of narrative?
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>
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>Because it was looked upon as tyrannical for a
>time. And of course it was in many
>respects. But then anti-narrative quickly
>developed it's own tyrannies. One reason I like
>Mark Tansey so much is he is familiar with and
>paints and talks about varying sides of this divide so well.
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