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Digressions in European Literature
From Cervantes to Sebald
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Digressions in European Literature
From Cervantes to Sebald
About this book
With studies of, amongst others, Miguel de Cervantes, Anton Chekhov, Charles Baudelaire and Henry James, this landmark collection of essays is a unique and wide-ranging exploration and celebration of the many forms of digression in major works by fifteen of the finest European writers from the early modern period to the present day.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword by Ross Chambers
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 The Twists and Turns of Life: Cervantesâs Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda
- 2 Digressive and Progressive Movements: Sympathy and Sexuality in Tristram Shandy; or, Plain Stories
- 3 Little Dorrit: Dickens, Circumlocution, Unconscious Thought
- 4 Concerning Metaphor, Digression and Rhyme (Fetish Aesthetics and the Walking Poem)
- 5 Henry James, in Parenthesis
- 6 A Slice of Watermelon: The Rhetoric of Digression in Chekhovâs âThe Lady with the Dogâ
- 7 âLetâs Forget All I Have Just Saidâ: Diversions and Digressions in Gidean Narratives
- 8 Errant Eyes: Digression, Metaphor and Desire in Marcel Proustâs In Search of Lost Time
- 9 Virginia Woolf and Digression: Adventures in Consciousness
- 10 Stealing the Story: Robert Walserâs Robber-Novel
- 11 Negotiating Tradition: Flann OâBrienâs Tales of Digression and Subversion
- 12 âGoing Onâ: Digression and Consciousness in The Beckett Trilogy
- 13 Straight Line or Aimless Wandering? Italo Calvinoâs Way to Digression
- 14 Roving with a Compass: Digression, the Novel and the Creative Imagination in Javier MarĂas
- 15 The Sense of Sebaldâs Endings ... and Beginnings
- Index