Symbolism. Volume 15 : an international annual of critical aesthetics / edited by Rudiger Ahrens [and three others] ; contributors, Eva Dolo [and eight others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ahrens, Rudiger, editor.

Dolo, Eva, contributor.

Series:

Symbolism

Symbolism, 1528-3623 ; Volume 15

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Symbolism in literature.

Symbolism (Art movement).

Symbolism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While paratexts - among them headnotes, footnotes, or endnotes - have never been absent from American literature, the last two decades have seen an explosion of the phenomenon, including (mock) scholarly footnotes, to an extent that they seem to take over the text itself. In this Special Focus we shall attempt to find the reasons for this astonishing development. In our first (diachronic) section we shall explore such texts as might have fostered the present boom, from fictions by Edgar Allan Poe to Vladimir Nabokov to Mark Z. Danielewski. The second (synchronic) section, will concentrate on paratexts by David Foster Wallace, perhaps the "father" of the post-postmodern footnote, as well as those to be found in novels by Bennett Sims, Jennifer Egan and Junot Diaz, among others. It appears that, while paratexts definitely point to a high degree of self-reflexivity in the author, they equally draw attention to the textual and authorial functions of the works in which they exist. They can thus cause a reflection on the boundaries between genres like fiction, faction, and autobiography, as well as serving to highlight a host of pedagogical and social concerns that exist in the interstices between fiction and reality.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword from the Editors

Table of Contents

Special Focus: Headnotes, Footnotes, Endnotes. Reflections on the Margins of the Literary Text

Introduction: Headnotes, Footnotes, Endnotes. Reflections on the Margins of the Literary Text / O'Donnell, Patrick / Ziegler, Heide

I. Undermining Authority, Power, and Dominance

Poe, Annotation, and the Other / Rachman, Stephen

Headnotes and Endnotes in the African American Sonnet / Müller, Timo

Páginas en blanco, Footnotes, and the Authority of the Archive in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao / González, John Morán

II. Diluting Mainstream Constraints

Too Much Fun - Endnotes in Infinite Jest / Dolo, Eva

Paratextualized Forms of Fictional Self-Narration: Footnotes, Headnotes and Endnotes in Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad / Hartmann, Johanna

"Only a Book": Reading the Footnotes in House of Leaves / McGrath, Laura B.

III. Creating Another Voice for the Self

The Novel as Note: Pale Fire and its Aftermath / O'Donnell, Patrick

Headnotes, Footnotes, Subliminal Notes in "Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky" and The Kraus Project / Ziegler, Heide

General Section

The Visible Remainder: Curtis White's Memories of My Father Watching TV / O'Donnell, Patrick

Classicism, Cultural Mobility, Hybridity, and the Transnational Imagination in the Works of Reginald Shepherd / Schliephake, Christopher

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 16. Mai 2019)

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 22, 2015).

Includes index.

ISBN:

9783110447811

3110447819

9783110449075

3110449072

OCLC:

936868748