LEADER 03431nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910825789403321 005 20240501023551.0 010 $a1-281-95848-4 010 $a9786611958480 010 $a0-8032-1938-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000720178 035 $a(EBL)452180 035 $a(OCoLC)311593510 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000208094 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11199022 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000208094 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10238651 035 $a(PQKB)11031957 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse11888 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL452180 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312860 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL195848 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC452180 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000720178 100 $a20080605d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aNarrative beginnings $etheories and practices /$fedited by Brian Richardson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLincoln $cUniversity of Nebraska Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (297 p.) 225 1 $aFrontiers of narrative 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8032-3974-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [263]-265) and index. 327 $aTitle 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 327 $a10. 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; Index 330 $aGeorge Eliot wrote that "man cannot do without the make-believe of a beginning." Beginnings, it turns out, can be quite unusual, complex, and deceptive. The first major volume to focus on this critical but neglected topic, this collection brings together theoretical studies and critical analyses of beginnings in a wide range of narrative works spanning several centuries and genres. The international and interdisciplinary scope of these essays, representing every major theoretical perspective-including feminist, cognitive, postcolonial, postmodern, rhetorical, ethnic, narratological, and hypert 410 0$aFrontiers of narrative. 606 $aNarration (Rhetoric) 606 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 615 0$aNarration (Rhetoric) 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 676 $a808 701 $aRichardson$b Brian$f1953-$0157465 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825789403321 996 $aNarrative beginnings$93968358 997 $aUNINA