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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b3429902.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description "1. The Beginning of the Aeneid -- 2. The Commedia -- 3. Paradise Lost -- 4. The Prelude -- 5. Tristram Shandy -- 6. David and Pip -- 7. The Sense of a Beginning.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "x, 255 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Openings.".
- catalog identifier "0198117418 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Openings.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford, [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Openings.".
- catalog subject "808 20".
- catalog subject "Epic poetry History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Fiction History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Narration (Rhetoric)".
- catalog subject "Openings (Rhetoric)".
- catalog subject "PN212 .N88 1991".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The Beginning of the Aeneid -- 2. The Commedia -- 3. Paradise Lost -- 4. The Prelude -- 5. Tristram Shandy -- 6. David and Pip -- 7. The Sense of a Beginning.".
- catalog title "Openings : narrative beginnings from the epic to the novel / A.D. Nuttall.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".