Abstract

In The Postmodern Condition, Lyotard identifies narrative as a distinct type of knowledge created and reshaped by individuals as nodal points. The novel All the Things I've Been explores this paradigm in Postmodern thought by following a narrator disconnected from ostensible reality as he attempts to create a new explanatory narrative to excuse his own misdeeds. Living in a subterranean hole, he draws on elements of the literature he hoards about him to construct a plot that will account for a past he is unwilling or unable to confront.

Details

Title
All The Things I've Been a novel
Author
Helmling, Richard
Year
2010
Publisher
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
ISBN
978-1-124-39188-5
Source type
Dissertation or Thesis
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
839911406
Copyright
Database copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.