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Openings - Narrative Beginnings from the Epic to the Novel (Hardcover, New)
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Openings - Narrative Beginnings from the Epic to the Novel (Hardcover, New)
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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'. 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. The
author also outlines how the inspiring Muse of epic gives way to
the poet's ego, dies, revives and dies again. 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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