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Narrative beginnings : theo...
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 Rebiun25668236 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun25668236 m o d cr cnu---unuuu 090302s2008 nbu obm s001 0 eng d 2008025271 317455193 350474224 647823845 663424665 712985057 961676778 962620396 1058143849 1126078100 1162043456 9780803219380 electronic bk.) 0803219385 electronic bk.) 9786611958480 6611958487 0803239742 Paper) 9780803239746 pbk. ; alk. paper) 1281958484 9781281958488 9786611958480 195848 MIL N$T eng pn N$T OCLCQ EBLCP IDEBK OCLCQ MHW TUU OCLCQ CDX E7B REDDC OCLCQ P@U NLGGC OCLCQ YDXCP HUH OCLCQ OCLCF OCLCQ JSTOR OCLCQ LOA AZK AGLDB MOR PIFAG ZCU UEJ MERUC OCLCQ COO JBG IOG WY@ U3W EZ9 LUE STF WRM OCLCQ VTS ICG VT2 UKUOY AU@ OCLCQ WYU LVT TKN DKC OCLCQ M8D UKAHL OCLCQ YKC VLY LAN 015000 bisacsh REF 026000 bisacsh LAN 005000 bisacsh LIT000000 bisacsh Narrative beginnings theories and practices edited by Brian Richardson Lincoln University of Nebraska Press ©2008 Lincoln Lincoln University of Nebraska Press 1 online resource (281 pages) 1 online resource (281 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Frontiers of narrative Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-265) and index 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 English Narration (Rhetoric) English literature- History and criticism- Theory, etc. Literature- History and criticism- Theory, etc. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES- Rhetoric REFERENCE- Writing Skills LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES- Composition & Creative Writing LITERARY CRITICISM- General English literature- Theory, etc. Literature- Theory, etc. Narration (Rhetoric) Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Richardson, Brian 1953-) Print version Narrative beginnings. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008 9780803239746 0803239742 (DLC) 2008025271 (OCoLC)221147771 Frontiers of narrative