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Narrative Beginnings: Theories and Practices: Frontiers of Narrative

Editat de Brian Richardson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2009
George Eliot wrote that “man cannot do without the make-believe of a beginning.” Beginnings, it turns out, can be quite unusual, complex, and deceptive. The first major volume to focus on this critical but neglected topic, this collection brings together theoretical studies and critical analyses of beginnings in a wide range of narrative works spanning several centuries and genres. The international and interdisciplinary scope of these essays, representing every major theoretical perspective—including feminist, cognitive, postcolonial, postmodern, rhetorical, ethnic, narratological, and hypertext studies—extends from classic literary fiction to nonfictional discourse to popular culture.
 
The authors, respected scholars and emerging critics, ask what conventions structure our understanding of beginnings before we encounter them; how best to analyze and comprehend beginnings in historical, traditional, and postmodern works; and how endings are (often unexpectedly) related to beginnings. The contributors use historical, political, narratological, and psychological frameworks to pursue these and related questions in works by Laurence Sterne, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Manuel Puig, Salman Rushdie, Julia Alvarez, and feminist hypertext fiction. Together their essays comprise the single most important volume for theorizing about and understanding narrative beginnings.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780803239746
ISBN-10: 0803239742
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Nebraska Paperback
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Seria Frontiers of Narrative

Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

Brian Richardson is a professor of English at the University of Maryland. He is the author of Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction and Unlikely Stories: Causality and the Nature of Modern Narrative, and the editor of Narrative Dynamics: Essays on Plot, Time, Closure, and Frames.
 
Contributors: Oliver Buckton, Philippe Carrard, Tita Chico, Ryan Claycomb, Melba Cuddy-Keane, Marilyn Edelstein, Patrick Colm Hogan, Jessica Laccetti, Niels Buch Leander, Gaura Shankar Narayan, Armine Kotin Mortimer, James Phelan, Carlos Riobo, Brian Richardson, Catherine Romagnolo, and Susan Winnett.

Cuprins

Editor's Preface  000
Acknowledgments   000
Introduction: Narrative Beginnings 000
      Brian Richardson
Part 1. Origins, Paratexts, and Prototypes 000
1. To Begin with the Beginning: Birth, Origin, and Narrative Inception 000
      Niels Buch Leander
2. Before the Beginning: Nabokov and the Rhetoric of the Preface 000
      Marilyn Edelstein
3. Stories, Wars, and Emotions: The Absoluteness of Narrative Beginnings 000
      Patrick Colm Hogan
4. September 1939: Beginnings, Historical Narrative, and the Outbreak of World War II 000
      Philippe Carrard
Part 2. Beginnings in Narrative Literature 000
5. "The More I Write, the More I Shall Have to Write": The Many Beginnings of Tristram Shandy 000
      Tita Chico
6. Virginia Woolf and Beginning's Ragged Edge 000
      Melba Cuddy-Keane
7. A Theory of Narrative Beginnings and the Beginnings of "The Dead" and Molloy 000
      Brian Richardson
8. Heartbreak Tango: Manual Puig's Counter-Archive 000
      Carlos Riobó
9. Lost Beginnings in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
      Gaura Shankar Narayan 000
10. Recessive Origins in Julia Alvarez's Garcia Girls: A Feminist Exploration of Narrative Beginnings 000
      Catherine Romagnolo
11. Curtain Up? Disrupted, Disguised, and Delayed Beginnings in Theater and Drama   000
      Ryan Claycomb
12. Where to Begin? Multiple Narrative Paths in Web Fiction 000
      Jessica Laccetti
Part 3. Beginnings and/as Endings 000
13. The Beginning of Beloved: A Rhetorical Approach 000
      James Phelan
14. Connecting Links: Beginnings and Endings 000
      Armine Kotin Mortimer
15. "Mr. Betwixt-and-Between": The Politics of Narrative Indeterminacy in Stevenson's Kidnapped and David Balfour 000
      Oliver Buckton
16. Maculate Reconceptions 000
      Susan Winnett
Further Reading on Narrative Beginnings 000
Contributors      000
Index 000