目錄
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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