Narrative After Deconstruction
Daniel Punday
SUNY Press
Develops a rigorous theory of narrative as apost-deconstructive model for interpretation.     Interrogating stories told about life after deconstruction, and  discovering instead a kind of afterlife of deconstruction, Daniel  Punday draws on a wide range of theorists to develop a rigorous theory  of narrative as an alternative model for literary  interpretation. Drawing on an observation made by Jean-Fran?ois  Lyotard, Punday argues that at the heart of narrative are concrete  objects that can serve as "lynchpins" through which many  different explanations and interpretations can come  together. Narrative after Deconstruction traces the often grudging  emergence of a post-deconstructive interest in narrative throughout  contemporary literary theory by examining critics as diverse as  Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Elizabeth Grosz, and Edward  Said. Experimental novelists like Ronald Sukenick, Raymond Federman,  Clarence Major, and Kathy Acker likewise work through many of the same  problems of constructing texts in the wake of deconstruction, and so  provide a glimpse of this post-deconstructive narrative approach to  writing and interpretation at its most accomplished and powerful