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Digressions in European Literature

From Cervantes to Sebald

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  • © 2011

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  1. Alexis Grohmann

    1. University of Edinburgh, UK

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  2. Caragh Wells

    1. University of Bristol, UK

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Alexis Grohmann, Caragh Wells
    Pages 1-8

  3. The Twists and Turns of Life: Cervantes’s Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda

    • Jeremy Robbins
    Pages 9-20

  4. Digressive and Progressive Movements: Sympathy and Sexuality in Tristram Shandy; or, Plain Stories

    • Judith Hawley
    Pages 21-35

  5. Little Dorrit: Dickens, Circumlocution, Unconscious Thought

    • Jeremy Tambling
    Pages 36-48

  6. Concerning Metaphor, Digression and Rhyme (Fetish Aesthetics and the Walking Poem)

    • Ross Chambers
    Pages 49-63

  7. Henry James, in Parenthesis

    • Ian F. A. Bell
    Pages 64-81

  8. A Slice of Watermelon: The Rhetoric of Digression in Chekhov’s ‘The Lady with the Dog’

    • Peter J. Rabinowitz, Corinne Bancroft
    Pages 82-93

  9. ‘Let’s Forget All I Have Just Said’: Diversions and Digressions in Gidean Narratives

    • David H. Walker
    Pages 94-105

  10. Errant Eyes: Digression, Metaphor and Desire in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time

    • Margaret Topping
    Pages 106-117

  11. Virginia Woolf and Digression: Adventures in Consciousness

    • Laura Marcus
    Pages 118-129

  12. Stealing the Story: Robert Walser’s Robber-Novel

    • Samuel Frederick
    Pages 130-142

  13. Negotiating Tradition: Flann O’Brien’s Tales of Digression and Subversion

    • Flore Coulouma
    Pages 143-155

  14. ‘Going On’: Digression and Consciousness in The Beckett Trilogy

    • Edmund J. Smyth
    Pages 156-168

  15. Straight Line or Aimless Wandering? Italo Calvino’s Way to Digression

    • Olivia Santovetti
    Pages 169-180

  16. Roving with a Compass: Digression, the Novel and the Creative Imagination in Javier Marías

    • Alexis Grohmann
    Pages 181-192

  17. The Sense of Sebald’s Endings … and Beginnings

    • J. J. Long
    Pages 193-204

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 205-213
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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.

Reviews

'Digressions is a collection that works on two levels. As a collection of individual essays it provides much that will interest, while as an extended meditation on digression it offers a collection of material that is hugely suggestive, if not conclusive, and which invites the reader into a pleasantly open-ended and wilfully wayward discussion.' Modern Literary Review

'...the volume contains some fascinating new perspectives on the function of digressivity in literature. It is certainly a welcome resource for scholars working in the field of narratology, and should open the way for further academic exploration of the topic.' - French Studies

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Edinburgh, UK

    Alexis Grohmann

  • University of Bristol, UK

    Caragh Wells

About the editors

CORINNE BANCROFT Independent Scholar IAN F. A. BELL Professor of American Literature, University of Keele, UK ROSS CHAMBERS former Marvin Felheim Distinguished University Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, USA FLORE COULOUMA Lecturer in English Linguistics, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre, France SAMUEL FREDERICK Assistant Professor of German and Film, Clemson University, USA JUDITH HAWLEY Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK J. J. LONG Professor of German, Durham University, UK LAURA MARCUS Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford, UK PETER J. RABINOWITZ Professor of Comparative Literature, USA JEREMY ROBBINS Forbes Professor of Hispanic Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK OLIVIA SANTOVETTI Lecturer in Italian Literature, University of Leeds, UK EDMUND SMYTH Reader in French, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK JEREMY TAMBLING Professor of Literature, University of Manchester, UK MARGARET TOPPING Reader in French, Cardiff University, UK DAVID WALKER Professor of French, University of Sheffield, UK

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