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Publisher
Univ of Nebraska Pr
Publication date
January 1, 2009
Pages
281
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780803239746
ISBN-10
0803239742
Dimensions
0.75 by 6 by 9.25 in.
Weight
0.88 lbs.
Original list price
$29.95
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university press
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George Eliot wrote that âman cannot do without the make-believe of a beginning.â 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 perspectiveâincluding feminist, cognitive, postcolonial, postmodern, rhetorical, ethnic, narratological, and hypertext studiesâextends from classic literary fiction to nonfictional discourse to popular culture.
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The authors, respected scholars and emerging critics, ask what conventions structure our understanding of beginnings before we encounter them; how best to analyze and comprehend beginnings in historical, traditional, and postmodern works; and how endings are (often unexpectedly) related to beginnings. The contributors use historical, political, narratological, and psychological frameworks to pursue these and related questions in works by Laurence Sterne, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Manuel Puig, Salman Rushdie, Julia Alvarez, and feminist hypertext fiction. Together their essays comprise the single most important volume for theorizing about and understanding narrative beginnings.
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9780803239746 | details & prices | 281 pages | 6.00 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.88 lbs | List price $29.95
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