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.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2010

ISBN

9780230292529

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Literary Criticism Theory

Index

Literature

Cover
Half-Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword by Ross Chambers
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
1 The Twists and Turns of Life: Cervantes’s Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda
2 Digressive and Progressive Movements: Sympathy and Sexuality in Tristram Shandy; or, Plain Stories
3 Little Dorrit: Dickens, Circumlocution, Unconscious Thought
4 Concerning Metaphor, Digression and Rhyme (Fetish Aesthetics and the Walking Poem)
5 Henry James, in Parenthesis
6 A Slice of Watermelon: The Rhetoric of Digression in Chekhov’s ‘The Lady with the Dog’
7 ‘Let’s Forget All I Have Just Said’: Diversions and Digressions in Gidean Narratives
8 Errant Eyes: Digression, Metaphor and Desire in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time
9 Virginia Woolf and Digression: Adventures in Consciousness
10 Stealing the Story: Robert Walser’s Robber-Novel
11 Negotiating Tradition: Flann O’Brien’s Tales of Digression and Subversion
12 ‘Going On’: Digression and Consciousness in The Beckett Trilogy
13 Straight Line or Aimless Wandering? Italo Calvino’s Way to Digression
14 Roving with a Compass: Digression, the Novel and the Creative Imagination in Javier Marías
15 The Sense of Sebald’s Endings ... and Beginnings
Index