William Ray

Story and history : narrative authority and social identity in the eighteenth-century French and English novel

Private lives and public stories personal ordering and providential order negotiating reality individualism and authority the seduction of the self from private narration to public narrative textualizing the self the necessary other - the dialogical structure of the self self-ish narration and the authorial self the emergence of literary authority exemplification and the authoring of utopia ironizing history the great scroll of history self emplotment and the implication of the reader.

Literary Meaning: From Phenomenology to Deconstruction

This book is both a guide to, and interpretation of, the course of modern literary theory. Exploring the various theories of reading which have informed post--war literary criticism, it shows that for all the fervour of current debate about new movements in criticism, all these different approaches share at root a common notion of literary meaning.