导语

  

内容提要

  

    开端、副文本与文化原型分别指什么？
    叙事文学如何开端？
    开端与结尾又是什么关系？
    ……
    本书既论述了叙事作品开端的一般规律，又列举其体现在具体作品中的特殊表现，从开端的形式美学到隐含其中的文化历史意蕴，为读者呈现了关于开端的最新研究成果。

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