Narrative beginnings : theories and practices /

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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 an...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Richardson, Brian, 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008.
Series:Frontiers of narrative.
Subjects:
Narration (Rhetoric)
English literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Narration.
Littérature > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
English literature > Theory, etc.
Literature > Theory, etc.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Title page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Origins, Paratexts, and Prototypes; 1. To Begin with the Beginning; 2. Before the Beginning; 3. Stories, Wars, and Emotions; 4. September 1939; Part Two: Beginnings in Narrative Literature; 5. "The More I Write, the More I Shall Have to Write"; 6. Virginia Woolf and Beginning's Ragged Edge; 7. A Theory of Narrative Beginnings and the Beginnings of "The Dead" and Molloy; 8. Heartbreak Tango; 9. Lost Beginnings in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children.

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