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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Ohi, Kevin, 1972- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Fordham University Press, 2021.
Édition:First edition.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
English literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
American literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Openings (Rhetoric)
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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