Universal Grammar and Narrative Form

By: David Herman

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Hardcover | 20 September 1995

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In a major rethinking of the functions, methods, and aims of narrative poetics, David Herman exposes important links between modernist and postmodernist literary experimentation and contemporary language theory. Ultimately a search for new tools for narrative theory, his work clarifies complex connections between science and art, theory and culture, and philosophical analysis and narrative discourse.
Following an extensive historical overview of theories about universal grammar, Herman examines Joyce’s Ulysses, Kafka’s The Trial, and Woolf’s Between the Acts as case studies of modernist literary narratives that encode grammatical principles which were (re)fashioned in logic, linguistics, and philosophy during the same period. Herman then uses the interpretation of universal grammar developed via these modernist texts to explore later twentieth-century cultural phenomena. The problem of citation in the discourses of postmodernism, for example, is discussed with reference to syntactic theory. An analysis of Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover raises the question of cinematic meaning and draws on semantic theory. In each case, Herman shows how postmodern narratives encode ideas at work in current theories about the nature and function of language.
Outlining new directions for the study of language in literature, Universal Grammar and Narrative Form provides a wealth of information about key literary, linguistic, and philosophical trends in the twentieth century.

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"This book will reward the serious reader and will find an honorable place amidst all those who are trying to find a way out of the abnormal science that literary theory has become in the last twenty years."-Michael Holquist, Yale University

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Acknowledgments
Prefatory Note (On Translations and Citation Format)
Introduction: The Project of Universal Grammar: Some Historical and Methodological Considerations	p. 1
The Modeling of Syntactic Structures: "Sirens," Schonberg, and the Acceptations of Syntax	p. 37
Semantic Dimensions: Objects and Models in Kafka's Der Prozess	p. 95
Toward a Metapragmatics of Represented Discourse: Prague School Functionalism and Woolf's Between the Acts	p. 139
Postmodernism as Secondary Grammar	p. 185
Modes of Meaning in Film	p. 203
Notes	p. 225
References	p. 255
Index	p. 279
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