Uncharted Space: The End of Narrative

Jennifer Jeffers

    Research output: Book/ReportBook

    Abstract

    In the twentieth century painters, playwrights, and novelists began to produce non-representational works that eschewed narrative and were entirely devoted to an achromatic colorscape. Uncharted Space: The End of Narrative overturns critical exegesis that interprets these works as negative or as the «end» of art by offering a new way to think about and to articulate works devoid of narrative and color. When understood from a different critical perspective, art and literature produced at the end of narrative challenge our traditional ways of interpreting all art production.

    Nominated for Rene Wellek Prize, American Comparative Literature Association

    Original languageAmerican English
    StatePublished - Dec 1 2001

    Keywords

    • philosophy
    • representation
    • narration
    • rhetoric
    • philosophy of art
    • modern aesthetics
    • literature and art
    • visual arts

    Disciplines

    • Comparative Literature

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