Openings: Narrative Beginnings from the Epic to the Novel Hardcover - 1992
by A. D. Nuttall
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What is the difference between a natural beginning and the beginning of a story? Some deny that there are any beginnings in nature, except perhaps for the origin of the universe itself, suggesting that elsewhere we have only a continuum of events, into which beginnings are variously 'read' by different societies. This book argues that history is full of real beginnings but that poets and novelists are indeed free to begin their stories wherever they like. The ancient poet Homer laid down a rule for his successors when he began his epic by plunging in medias res, 'into the midst of things'. The inspiring Muse of epic gives way to the poet's ego, dies, revives and dies again. Later writers, however, persistently play off the 'interventionist', in medias res opening against some sense of a 'deep', natural beginning: Genesis or the birth of a child. Ranging from Greek and Roman epic to the modern novel via Dante, Milton, Wordsworth, Sterne, and Dickens, A. D. Nuttall has written an ambitious and original book which will be of interest to a wide variety of readers.
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- Title Openings: Narrative Beginnings from the Epic to the Novel
- Author A. D. Nuttall
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Reprint Edition
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher OUP Oxford, New York
- Date 1992-05-14
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780198117414 / 0198117418
- Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.91 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Fiction - History and criticism, Narration (Rhetoric)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91020192
- Dewey Decimal Code 808
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