Inceptions : literary beginnings and contingencies of form /
"The beginning is both internal and external to the text it initiates, and that noncoincidence points to the text's vexed relation with its outside. Hence the nontrivial self-reflexivity of any textual beginning, which must bear witness to the self-grounding quality of the literary work- i...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2021
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| Edition: | First edition |
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE
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Table of Contents:
- Exordium
- Potentiality and gesture. Revision, origin, and the courage of truth : Henry James's New York Edition prefaces
- "First love" : gesture and the emergence of desire in Eudora Welty
- Novels and the beginnings of character. Robinson Crusoe and the inception of speech
- The clock finger at nought : Daniel Deronda and the positing of perspective
- Proto-reading and the positing of character in Our mutual friend
- Our stony ancestry. Ovid and Orpheus
- Wallace Stevens and the temporalities of inception and embodiment
- Solitude and queer origins. "Epitaph, the idiom of man" : imaginings of the beginning
- Etiology, solitude, and queer incipience
- Exordium
- Potentiality and gesture. Revision, origin, and the courage of truth : Henry Jamess New York Edition prefaces
- First love : gesture and the emergence of desire in Eudora Welty
- Novels and the beginnings of character. Robinson Crusoe and the inception of speech
- The clock finger at nought : Daniel Deronda and the positing of perspective
- Proto-reading and the positing of character in Our mutual friend
- Our stony ancestry. Ovid and Orpheus
- Wallace Stevens and the temporalities of inception and embodiment
- Solitude and queer origins. Epitaph, the idiom of man : imaginings of the beginning
- Etiology, solitude, and queer incipience