Narrative beginnings
Subtitle: theories and practices
By: edited by Brian Richardson.
Contributors: Richardson, Brian, 1953-
Series: Frontiers of narrative
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780803239746
Subjects: Narration (Rhetoric); English literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.