Narrative Beginnings: Theories and Practices

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1. Introduction: Narrative Beginnings / Brian Richardson, University of Maryland I. Origins, Paratexts, and Prototypes Introduction: Beginnings Before Reading 2. Before the Beginning: Nabokov and the Rhetoric of the Preface / Marilyn Edelstein, Santa Clara University 3. Stories, Wars, and Emotions: Absoluteness of Narrative Beginnings / Patrick Colm Hogan, University of Connecticut 4. September 1939: Beginnings, Historical Narratives, and the Outbreak of World War II / Philippe Carrard, University of Vermont II. Beginnings in Narrative Literature Introduction: Theory and Practice of Beginnings in Literature 5. To Begin with the Beginning: Birth, Origin, and the Narrative Inception / Niels Buch Leander, University of Copenhagen 6. The more I write, the more I shall have to write: Beginning Tristram Shandy / Tita Chico, University of Maryland 7. A Theory of Narrative Beginnings and the Beginnings of The Dead and Molloy / Brian Richardson, University of Maryland 8. Viriginia Woolf and Beginning's Ragged Edge / Melba Cuddy-Keane, University of Toronto 9. Manual Puig's Alternative Archive / Carlos Riobo, Barnard College 10. Lost Beginnings in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children / Guara Shankar Narayan, SUNY Purchase 11. Recessive Beginnings in Alvarez' Garcia Girls: Feminist Theory of Narrative Beginnings / Catherine Romagnolo, Lebanon Valley College 12. Curtain Up? Disrupted, Disguised, and Delayed Beginnings in Theater and Drama / Ryan Claycomb, West Virginia University 13. Multiple Choices: Multilinear Beginnings in Hypertext Fiction by Women / Jessica Laccetti, University of London III. Beginnings and/as Endings Introduction: Relations between Beginnings and Endings 14. Beginning of Beloved: A Rhetorical Approach / James Phelan, Ohio State University 15. Connecting Links: Beginnings and Endings / Armine Kotin Mortimer, University of Illinois 16. Mr. Betwixt-and-Between: Politics of Narrative Indeterminacy in Stevenson's Kidnapped and Catriona / Oliver Buckton, Florida Atlantic University 17. Maculate Reconceptions / Susan Winnett, University of Hamburg Bibliography

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