目录 Editor's Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Narrative Beginnings Part One: Origins, Paratexts,and Prototypes 1. To Begin with the Beginning Birth, Origin,and Narrative Inception 2. Before the Beginning Nabokov and the Rhetoric of the Preface 3. Stories, Wars, and Emotions The Absoluteness of Narrative Beginnings 4. September 1939 Beginnings, Historical Narrative, and the Outbreak of World War Ⅱ Part Two:Beginnings in Narrative Literature 5.“The More I Write, the More I Shall Have to Write”The Many Beginnings of Tristram Shandy 6. Virginia Woolf and Beginning's Ragged Edge 7.A Theory of Narrative Beginnings and the Beginnings of “The Dead”and Molloy 8. Heartbreak Tango Manuel Puig's Counter-Archive 9. Lost Beginnings in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children 10. Recessive Origins in Julia Alvarez's Garcia Girls A Feminist Exploration of Narrative Beginnings 11. Curtain Up? Disrupted, Disguised, and Delayed Beginnings in Theater and Drama 12. Where to Begin? Multiple Narrative Paths in Web Fiction Part Three:Beginnings and/as Endings 13. The Beginning of Beloved A Rhetorical Approach 14. Connecting Links Beginnings and Endings 15.\"Mr.Betwixt-and-Between”The Politics of Narrative Indeterminacy in Stevenson's Kidnapped and David Balfour 16. Maculate Reconceptions Further Reading on Narrative Beginnings Contributors Index
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