Digressions in European Literature [electronic resource] : From Cervantes to Sebald /
Grohmann, A.editor.
Wells, C.editor.
With studies of, amongst others, Miguel de Cervantes, Anton Chekhov, Charles Baudelaire and Henry James, this landmark collection of essays is a unique and wide-ranging exploration and celebration of the many forms of digression in major works by fifteen of the finest European writers from the early modern period to the present day.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The twists and turns of life: Cervantes's Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda / Jeremy Robbins -- Digressive and progressive movements: sympathy and sexuality in Tristram Shandy; or, plain tales / Judith Hawley -- Little Dorrit: Dickens, circumlocution, unconscious thought / Jeremy Tambling -- Concerning metaphor, digression and rhyme (fetish aesthetics and the walking poem) / Ross Chambers -- Henry James, in parenthesis / Ian F. A. Bell -- A slice of watermelon: the rhetoric of digression in Chekhov's The lady with the dog / Peter J. Rabinowitz and Corinne Bancroft -- "Let's forget all I have just said": diversions and digressions in Gidean narratives / David Walker -- Errant eyes: digression, metaphor and desire in Marcel Proust's In search of lost time / Margaret Topping -- Virginia Woolf and digression: adventures in consciousness / Laura Marcus -- Stealing the story: Robert Walser's robber-novel / Samuel Frederick -- Negotiating tradition: Flann O'Brien's tales of digression and subversion / Flore Coulouma -- Going on: digression and consciousness in the Beckett trilogy / Edmund J. Smyth -- Straight line or aimless wandering? Italo Calvino's way to digression / Olivia Santovetti -- Roving with a compass; digression, the novel and the creative imagination in Javier Marías / Alexis Grohmann -- The sense of Sebald's endings-- and beginnings / J. J. Long.
With studies of, amongst others, Miguel de Cervantes, Anton Chekhov, Charles Baudelaire and Henry James, this landmark collection of essays is a unique and wide-ranging exploration and celebration of the many forms of digression in major works by fifteen of the finest European writers from the early modern period to the present day.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Literature   .
European literature.
British literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
European Literature.
British and Irish Literature.