Narrative Beginnings

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editor's Preface 000Acknowledgments 000Introduction: Narrative Beginnings 000 Brian RichardsonPart 1. Origins, Paratexts, and Prototypes 0001. To Begin with the Beginning: Birth, Origin, and Narrative Inception 000 Niels Buch Leander2. Before the Beginning: Nabokov and the Rhetoric of the Preface 000 Marilyn Edelstein3. Stories, Wars, and Emotions: The Absoluteness of Narrative Beginnings 000 Patrick Colm Hogan4. September 1939: Beginnings, Historical Narrative, and the Outbreak of World War II 000 Philippe CarrardPart 2. Beginnings in Narrative Literature 0005. "The More I Write, the More I Shall Have to Write": The Many Beginnings of Tristram Shandy 000 Tita Chico6. Virginia Woolf and Beginning's Ragged Edge 000 Melba Cuddy-Keane7. A Theory of Narrative Beginnings and the Beginnings of "The Dead" and Molloy 000 Brian Richardson8. Heartbreak Tango: Manual Puig's Counter-Archive 000 Carlos Riobó9. Lost Beginnings in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children Gaura Shankar Narayan 00010. Recessive Origins in Julia Alvarez's Garcia Girls: A Feminist Exploration of Narrative Beginnings 000 Catherine Romagnolo11. Curtain Up? Disrupted, Disguised, and Delayed Beginnings in Theater and Drama 000 Ryan Claycomb12. Where to Begin? Multiple Narrative Paths in Web Fiction 000 Jessica LaccettiPart 3. Beginnings and/as Endings 00013. The Beginning of Beloved: A Rhetorical Approach 000 James Phelan14. Connecting Links: Beginnings and Endings 000 Armine Kotin Mortimer15. "Mr. Betwixt-and-Between": The Politics of Narrative Indeterminacy in Stevenson's Kidnapped and David Balfour 000 Oliver Buckton16. Maculate Reconceptions 000 Susan WinnettFurther Reading on Narrative Beginnings 000Contributors 000Index 000...

Résumé
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.

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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