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Narrative beginnings [theor...
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 hypert
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monografia Rebiun11656976 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun11656976 m o d cr cnu---unuuu 090302s2008 nbu obm s001 0 eng d 9780803219380 0803219385 0803239742 (Paper) 9780803239746 UPVA 997914910303706 UAM 991008077990404211 CBUC 991010885075506709 CBUC 991001006698506712 UPCT u381803 NT. eng. NT. OCLCQ. EBLCP. IDEBK. OCLCQ. MHW. TUU. OCLCQ. CDX. E7B. REDDC. OCLCQ. UNAV 808 22 Narrative beginnings Recurso electrónico] theories and practices edited by Brian Richardson Lincoln University of Nebraska Press c2008 Lincoln Lincoln University of Nebraska Press 281 p. 281 p. EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete Frontiers of narrative Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. [263]-265) e índice 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 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 hypert Forma de acceso: World Wide Web Richardson, Brian 1953-)