Inceptions : literary beginnings and contingencies of form /

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"The beginning is both internal and external to the text it initiates, and that noncoincidence points to the text's vexed relation with its outside. Hence the nontrivial self-reflexivity of any textual beginning, which must bear witness to the self-grounding quality of the literary work- i...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ohi, Kevin, 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Openings (Rhetoric)
American literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
English literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Ouverture (Rhétorique)
Littérature américaine > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
English literature > Theory, etc.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Exordium
  • Potentiality and gesture. Revision, origin, and the courage of truth : Henry James's New York Edition prefaces
  • "First love" : gesture and the emergence of desire in Eudora Welty
  • Novels and the beginnings of character. Robinson Crusoe and the inception of speech
  • The clock finger at nought : Daniel Deronda and the positing of perspective
  • Proto-reading and the positing of character in Our mutual friend
  • Our stony ancestry. Ovid and Orpheus
  • Wallace Stevens and the temporalities of inception and embodiment
  • Solitude and queer origins. "Epitaph, the idiom of man" : imaginings of the beginning
  • Etiology, solitude, and queer incipience.

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