Acts of Narrative

Preface: The Place of Narrative CarolJacobs ix 1 J. Hillis Miller and the Task of the Critic Henry Sussman 2 Lying Against Death: Out of the Loop J. Hillis Miller 15 3 Waiting in the Wings Diane Elam 31 4 Parting Words: Trauma, Silence, and Survival Cathy Caruth 47 5 The Other Day: The Interpretation of Daydreams Rachel Bowlby 62 6 Difference Behind Similarity: Focalization in Third-Person Center-of-Consciousness and First-Person Retrospective Narration Dan Shen 81 7 The Telepathy Effect: Notes toward a Reconsideration of Narrative Fiction Nicholas Royle 93 8 Trackings Tom Cohen 110 9 The Rape of the Lock: A Jacobite Aesthetics? Ronald Paulson 130 10 The Serpent in the Wilderness: Space, Place, and Landscape in the Eighteenth Century W J. T Mitchell 146 11 Narrative Discourse and a New Sense of Value: Meaning and Purpose in the Neoclassical Economics of Alfred Marshall Ronald Schleifer 157 12 Sidney's Technology: A Critique by Technology of Literary History Alan Liu 174 13 Le Parjure, Perhaps: Storytelling and Lying (abrupt breaches of syntax) Jacques Derrida 195