03431nam 2200649 a 450 991082578940332120240501023551.01-281-95848-497866119584800-8032-1938-5(CKB)1000000000720178(EBL)452180(OCoLC)311593510(SSID)ssj0000208094(PQKBManifestationID)11199022(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000208094(PQKBWorkID)10238651(PQKB)11031957(MdBmJHUP)muse11888(Au-PeEL)EBL452180(CaPaEBR)ebr10312860(CaONFJC)MIL195848(MiAaPQ)EBC452180(EXLCZ)99100000000072017820080605d2008 ub 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrNarrative beginnings theories and practices /edited by Brian Richardson1st ed.Lincoln University of Nebraska Pressc20081 online resource (297 p.)Frontiers of narrativeDescription based upon print version of record.0-8032-3974-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [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 Children10. Recessive Origins in Julia Alvarez's Garcia Girls11. Curtain Up ?; 12. Where to Begin ?; Part Three: Beginnings and/as Endings; 13. The Beginning of Beloved; 14. Connecting Links; 15. "Mr. Betwixt-and-Between"; 16. Maculate Reconceptions; Further Reading on Narrative Beginnings; Contributors; IndexGeorge 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 hypertFrontiers of narrative.Narration (Rhetoric)English literatureHistory and criticismTheory, etcLiteratureHistory and criticismTheory, etcNarration (Rhetoric)English literatureHistory and criticismTheory, etc.LiteratureHistory and criticismTheory, etc.808Richardson Brian1953-157465MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825789403321Narrative beginnings3968358UNINA