Digressions in European literature
Subtitle: from Cervantes to Sebald
By: edited by Alexis Grohmann and Caragh Wells
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780230247987
Subjects: Digression (Rhetoric) in literature; History and criticism; European literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The twists and turns of life: Cervantes's Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda / Jeremy Robbins; title: Digressive and progressive movements: sympathy and sexuality in Tristram Shandy; or, plain tales / Judith Hawley; title: Little Dorrit: Dickens, circumlocution, unconscious thought / Jeremy Tambling; title: Concerning metaphor, digression and rhyme (fetish aesthetics and the walking poem) / Ross Chambers; title: Henry James, in parenthesis / Ian F. A. Bell; title: A slice of watermelon: the rhetoric of digression in Chekhov's The lady with the dog / Peter J. Rabinowitz and Corinne Bancroft; title: "Let's forget all I have just said": diversions and digressions in Gidean narratives / David Walker; title: Errant eyes: digression, metaphor and desire in Marcel Proust's In search of lost time / Margaret Topping; title: Virginia Woolf and digression: adventures in consciousness / Laura Marcus; title: Stealing the story: Robert Walser's robber-novel / Samuel Frederick; title: Negotiating tradition: Flann O'Brien's tales of digression and subversion / Flore Coulouma; title: 'Going on': digression and consciousness in the Beckett trilogy / Edmund J. Smyth; title: Straight line or aimless wandering? Italo Calvino's way to digression / Olivia Santovetti; title: Roving with a compass: digression, the novel and the creative imagination in Javier Marías / Alexis Grohmann; title: The sense of Sebald's endings; title: and beginnings / J. J. Long.